Re: [expert] recovering files after formatting

2002-08-12 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sun, 07 Apr 2002 22:31:01 -0400 "Ronald J. Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Grabed a keyboard and said: > Randy Kramer wrote: > > > There are ways to recover deleted files in Linux, especially > > if they are text files. IIUC, it is not fun -- you basically > > read the disk "raw" and then try to r

Re: [expert] recovering files after formatting

2002-08-12 Thread James Sparenberg
If you ever wanted to learn about File systems now is the time. Because of the way Unix deletes recovery is quite a bit more of a bear. Unix actually deletes the file. Windows just changes the first byte from a character to an available flag. That's why norton recovery will ask you the first l

Re: [expert] recovering files after formatting

2002-04-09 Thread Randy Kramer
Ronald J. Hall wrote: > Hmm, somebody correct me if I'm wrong but if you really want to protect that > "deleted" file, then you must unmount that drive, or there is a chance some > other background app/daemon may use the space in question...isn't that right? Sounds like a good point to me! Randy

Re: [expert] recovering files after formatting

2002-04-08 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Randy Kramer wrote: > There are ways to recover deleted files in Linux, especially if they are > text files. IIUC, it is not fun -- you basically read the disk "raw" > and then try to reassemble the files from clusters or whatever. > > The original poster did do a good thing (I think) if he tri

Re: [expert] recovering files after formatting

2002-04-08 Thread Femme
On Monday 08 April 2002 08:19 am, you wrote: > J. Craig Woods wrote: > > How will knowing the filesystem help? You say the partition is still > > there, and "untouched". Well, my friend, if you have re-formatted the > > drive, it is not *untouched*. As a matter of fact, it is touched in a > > big

Re: [expert] recovering files after formatting

2002-04-08 Thread J. Craig Woods
Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SICN wrote: > There are ways to bring back the data, even after a format. One utility > for linux is http://www.r-tt.com/RLinux.shtml > I would be very incredulous about using this utility. It is only for win32 platforms. Can it be used on Linux? Well, yes, all you need

RE: [expert] recovering files after formatting

2002-04-08 Thread Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SICN
/products_ff_undelete.asp for $29 may not be bad Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB -Original Message- From: J. Craig Woods [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 08, 2002 9:04 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] recovering files after formatting Hoyt wrote: > On Monday 08 April 2002 12:18

Re: [expert] recovering files after formatting

2002-04-08 Thread Randy Kramer
J. Craig Woods wrote: > How will knowing the filesystem help? You say the partition is still > there, and "untouched". Well, my friend, if you have re-formatted the > drive, it is not *untouched*. As a matter of fact, it is touched in a > big way. Your data is gone, gone, gone. Now if you only del

Re: [expert] recovering files after formatting

2002-04-08 Thread J. Craig Woods
Hoyt wrote: > On Monday 08 April 2002 12:18 am, you wrote: > >>Hi >>I have mistakenly formatted a partition with some important data >>in it while installing Mandrake 8.2. >>The partition is still there with same size, untouched, etc. >>Any chance I can recover the data? >> > > You need to tell

Re: [expert] recovering files after formatting

2002-04-08 Thread Hoyt
On Monday 08 April 2002 12:18 am, you wrote: > Hi > I have mistakenly formatted a partition with some important data > in it while installing Mandrake 8.2. > The partition is still there with same size, untouched, etc. > Any chance I can recover the data? You need to tell us what filesystem you

[expert] recovering files after formatting

2002-04-07 Thread Paulo Justiniano Ribeiro Jr
Hi I have mistakenly formatted a partition with some important data in it while installing Mandrake 8.2. The partition is still there with same size, untouched, etc. Any chance I can recover the data? Thanks P.J. Paulo Justiniano Ribeiro Jr Departamento de Estatistica Universidade Federal do Pa