Re: [newbie] File undelete utility?
Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 08 Feb 2005 03:07, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Boot with the Ultimate Boot CD, pick the partition recovery option, and let the program restore the partition table. As long as you have not created new partitions, chances are good that it will find the correct partition start and size. Once you create new partitions, you give it more possibilities. You also run the risk that the new partitions will overlap what you are trying to save. Then you wipe out some of the information needed to recover the partition when you format. Now, if you want to make recovery easy in case you ever do this again, you can also write a copy of the partition table to a floppy, and restore it from floppy if the table ever gets damaged. The tools to do it are on the CD. It is a must for any geek's tool box. Mikkel, last year I had a cpu fan fail that caused problems with my hdds. After my struggle to recover data I started a TWiki page on DataRecovery. Unfortunately, and ironically, this is the only page that I am aware of that was not recovered when the TWiki was lost - and I had not saved a copy of the file. I tried to do it again from memory, but it is sketchy at best, and of course only deals with the problems I had. Could you spare time to do an addition about using these tools? I think it would be invaluable. Anne Ok - I will add it to my ToDo list. I guess I had better do it in OO first, so it can check my spelling! Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] File undelete utility?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 08 Feb 2005 17:32, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Ok - I will add it to my ToDo list. I guess I had better do it in OO first, so it can check my spelling! LOL - well, I know you're bored, and have nothing to do ;-) I read your list of jobs - shouldn't take you too long vbg Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCCQp0kFAvMr/nNX8RAhrEAKCOapyDbNORvm97FxXpFUG1Jx2VlQCbBUkl NuefT1QrKbf0YRMTttS3DB4= =EQAF -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] File undelete utility?
On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 09:33:32 -0500 (EST) cervixcouch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the process of trying to set up an external hard drive, I misread the Seagate setup instructions and accidentally destroyed the partitions on my laptop so badly that using 'rescue' from the installation CD couldn't do good. (all my partitions were gone) I've since reinstalled Linux and tried to set the partition sizes to what they were before, in the hope that I could run some sort of file restore utility on /dev/hda6, which was where my /home drive was. (my hope was that that portion of the hard drive wouldn't be overwritten by the install) I've tried r-linux, recover and mundelete and none of them have worked. I need something a little more thorough than those three, something that will scan the drive itself instead of only checking the inodes. Any suggestions? have you tried the ultimate boot cd? http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ not sure if it has anything you need, but it has alot on it. The web site list all the programs on it, you might find something useful, if not for now maybe later on. -- Linux user #280097 http://counter.li.org http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] File undelete utility?
Steve Jeppesen wrote: On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 09:33:32 -0500 (EST) cervixcouch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the process of trying to set up an external hard drive, I misread the Seagate setup instructions and accidentally destroyed the partitions on my laptop so badly that using 'rescue' from the installation CD couldn't do good. (all my partitions were gone) I've since reinstalled Linux and tried to set the partition sizes to what they were before, in the hope that I could run some sort of file restore utility on /dev/hda6, which was where my /home drive was. (my hope was that that portion of the hard drive wouldn't be overwritten by the install) I've tried r-linux, recover and mundelete and none of them have worked. I need something a little more thorough than those three, something that will scan the drive itself instead of only checking the inodes. Any suggestions? have you tried the ultimate boot cd? http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ not sure if it has anything you need, but it has alot on it. The web site list all the programs on it, you might find something useful, if not for now maybe later on. It does have partition recovery tools on it. But I am not sure they will work after doing a re-install. I hate to say it, but it would have been fairly simple to recover before trying to re-install Linux. But it is worth a try... Mikkel Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] File undelete utility?
On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 17:12:46 -0600 Mikkel L. Ellertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: have you tried the ultimate boot cd? http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ not sure if it has anything you need, but it has alot on it. The web site list all the programs on it, you might find something useful, if not for now maybe later on. It does have partition recovery tools on it. But I am not sure they will work after doing a re-install. I hate to say it, but it would have been fairly simple to recover before trying to re-install Linux. But it is worth a try... Under the Partition Tools section, I counted 11 programs. a few sections above that were some Seagate Hard drive utitilties as well. I know it also has some partition wipe utilities as well ;) but that's for other reasons! -- Linux user #280097 http://counter.li.org http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] File undelete utility?
Steve Jeppesen wrote: On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 09:33:32 -0500 (EST) cervixcouch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the process of trying to set up an external hard drive, I misread the Seagate setup instructions and accidentally destroyed the partitions on my laptop so badly that using 'rescue' from the installation CD couldn't do good. (all my partitions were gone) I've since reinstalled Linux and tried to set the partition sizes to what they were before, in the hope that I could run some sort of file restore utility on /dev/hda6, which was where my /home drive was. (my hope was that that portion of the hard drive wouldn't be overwritten by the install) I've tried r-linux, recover and mundelete and none of them have worked. I need something a little more thorough than those three, something that will scan the drive itself instead of only checking the inodes. Any suggestions? have you tried the ultimate boot cd? http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ not sure if it has anything you need, but it has alot on it. The web site list all the programs on it, you might find something useful, if not for now maybe later on. I downloaded magicrescue and managed to restore all the image files that were in my /home partition. The utility isn't comprehensive enough to restore my downloaded tgz/zip/rpm files, so I'll give ultimatebootcd a shot too. Thanx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] File undelete utility?
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Steve Jeppesen wrote: On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 09:33:32 -0500 (EST) cervixcouch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the process of trying to set up an external hard drive, I misread the Seagate setup instructions and accidentally destroyed the partitions on my laptop so badly that using 'rescue' from the installation CD couldn't do good. (all my partitions were gone) I've since reinstalled Linux and tried to set the partition sizes to what they were before, in the hope that I could run some sort of file restore utility on /dev/hda6, which was where my /home drive was. (my hope was that that portion of the hard drive wouldn't be overwritten by the install) I've tried r-linux, recover and mundelete and none of them have worked. I need something a little more thorough than those three, something that will scan the drive itself instead of only checking the inodes. Any suggestions? have you tried the ultimate boot cd? http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ not sure if it has anything you need, but it has alot on it. The web site list all the programs on it, you might find something useful, if not for now maybe later on. It does have partition recovery tools on it. But I am not sure they will work after doing a re-install. I hate to say it, but it would have been fairly simple to recover before trying to re-install Linux. But it is worth a try... Mikkel OK, I'll bite. If the OS won't boot, the partitions are all gone and rescue complains that it can't find /usr, what would the fairly simple solution be in such a situation? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] File undelete utility?
cervixcouch wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Steve Jeppesen wrote: On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 09:33:32 -0500 (EST) cervixcouch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the process of trying to set up an external hard drive, I misread the Seagate setup instructions and accidentally destroyed the partitions on my laptop so badly that using 'rescue' from the installation CD couldn't do good. (all my partitions were gone) I've since reinstalled Linux and tried to set the partition sizes to what they were before, in the hope that I could run some sort of file restore utility on /dev/hda6, which was where my /home drive was. (my hope was that that portion of the hard drive wouldn't be overwritten by the install) I've tried r-linux, recover and mundelete and none of them have worked. I need something a little more thorough than those three, something that will scan the drive itself instead of only checking the inodes. Any suggestions? have you tried the ultimate boot cd? http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ not sure if it has anything you need, but it has alot on it. The web site list all the programs on it, you might find something useful, if not for now maybe later on. It does have partition recovery tools on it. But I am not sure they will work after doing a re-install. I hate to say it, but it would have been fairly simple to recover before trying to re-install Linux. But it is worth a try... Mikkel OK, I'll bite. If the OS won't boot, the partitions are all gone and rescue complains that it can't find /usr, what would the fairly simple solution be in such a situation? Boot with the Ultimate Boot CD, pick the partition recovery option, and let the program restore the partition table. As long as you have not created new partitions, chances are good that it will find the correct partition start and size. Once you create new partitions, you give it more possibilities. You also run the risk that the new partitions will overlap what you are trying to save. Then you wipe out some of the information needed to recover the partition when you format. Now, if you want to make recovery easy in case you ever do this again, you can also write a copy of the partition table to a floppy, and restore it from floppy if the table ever gets damaged. The tools to do it are on the CD. It is a must for any geek's tool box. Mikkel Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] File undelete utility?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 08 Feb 2005 03:07, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Boot with the Ultimate Boot CD, pick the partition recovery option, and let the program restore the partition table. As long as you have not created new partitions, chances are good that it will find the correct partition start and size. Once you create new partitions, you give it more possibilities. You also run the risk that the new partitions will overlap what you are trying to save. Then you wipe out some of the information needed to recover the partition when you format. Now, if you want to make recovery easy in case you ever do this again, you can also write a copy of the partition table to a floppy, and restore it from floppy if the table ever gets damaged. The tools to do it are on the CD. It is a must for any geek's tool box. Mikkel, last year I had a cpu fan fail that caused problems with my hdds. After my struggle to recover data I started a TWiki page on DataRecovery. Unfortunately, and ironically, this is the only page that I am aware of that was not recovered when the TWiki was lost - and I had not saved a copy of the file. I tried to do it again from memory, but it is sketchy at best, and of course only deals with the problems I had. Could you spare time to do an addition about using these tools? I think it would be invaluable. Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCCGgWkFAvMr/nNX8RAir6AJ9LBxWUGqnsLxILfqdN4pmKKysPkQCgkKZC Nwr79M1DD0PwcZNUzgXNJw0= =ULWX -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
