Formatted wrong drive: recovery possible?
Greetings, While attempting to make a bootable USB drive, I accidently formatted the hard drive with all my recorded work on it. Is it lost forever? Are there people who can recover data in such a case? The drive does not mount, and Gparted says: Unable to detect file system! Possible reasons are: -The file system is damaged -The file system is unkown to GParted -There is no file system available (unformatted) This was the drive I used to back up my main system drive; I didn't have a backup for my backup. There were no completed projects, but a lot of work-in-progress. It feels like when somebody dies. Is there any hope? --Paul in Seattle -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
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Lost Partition If you made a mistake while partitioning and the partition no longer appears in the partition table, so long as you have not written data in that space, all your data is still there. GNU Parted Run Parted from the command line to recover your partition. When changing the partition table on your hard drive, you must ensure that no partition on the disk is mounted. This includes swap space. The easiest way to accomplish this is to run the live cd. Parted is installed on the base Ubuntu system. Once at the desktop, open a terminal and run_: sudo swapoff -a Next run parted and tell it to use the device in question. For example, if your /dev/sda drive is the drive from which you want to recover, run: sudo parted /dev/sda Then, use the rescue option: rescue START END where Start is the area of the disk where you believe the partition began and END is it's end. If parted finds a potential partition, it will ask you if you want to add it to the partition table. On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 3:26 PM, Paul DeShaw pauldes...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I wrote recently about data loss...In my panic, I didn't have the mental capacity to check another drive I have. Happily, lot of that stuff had been saved, in a few different places, in preparation for various re-installs and upgrades. None of it is newer than, well, whenever Hardy came out, so some more recent recordings are gone. The drive that I erased had been used to back up when I upgraded to Karmic, and some of the MIDI files, Rosegarden files, and various audio files had been restored to my main system drive before the incident. Anything done in Ardour was on the formatted drive, and I would still like to get those back, if possible. I need to learn a systematic way to back up files to a drive separate from the one I record onto. I'm wondering what other people are doing? And hoping newbies will learn from this incident. --Paul -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
Re: Formatted wrong drive: recovery possible?
On Sat, 26 Dec 2009 Mark Stuart Burge wrote: It should just be a case of letting testdisk find the partition and then using it to rebuild the table and voila! you have your files back again. Perhaps someone else out there knows of a better method though. In any case, if you can, to a 'dd' to a spare drive if you have one, so a mistake won't be critical. Good luck Wow, that's a HUGE relief. Apparently the files are there, and accessible. I need to learn better backup methods. Could you elaborate on how a 'dd' works? I say the files are apparently there, because Ardour is gone, so I can't test the Ardour sessions. I did not purposely remove it; I did remove ttf-musescore-fonts-installer, because it never did install completly, and Synaptic kept trying to complete the install everytime I ran it. I guess it took Ardour with it. (Though Synaptic says the ubuntustudio-audio metapackage is not installed, so far I've only found Ardour missing.) Synaptic asks for the install DVD when I try to install either ubuntustudio-audio or Ardour by itself. Same with aptitude in the terminal. When I originally upgraded to Karmic, I booted into Hardy from my system drive, inserted the Karmic DVD, and ran the upgrade at the prompt...it was reading the DVD/CD drive fine then. Now it can't seem to find it. Any idea how to tell Ubuntu where the optical drive is--or for that matter, why it can't install the audio package from the network? It does install other packages; I just installed disktest not an hour ago. This is a minor annoyance compared to losing all my work. I have tested the previously nonworking drive now--Audacious played a file through JACK into my USB audio interface. I just can't install Ardour and some other packages, or read or write any kind of optical media. I welcome any suggestions. Thanks, Paul -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
