[NTLUG:Discuss] Data recovery

[phrostie]

i forget the name of the util, it's either Disktest or Testdisk.

it does what you need.
been there, done that.

On Fri July 1 2005 02:31 am, Robert Thompson wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I was installing a new distribution and backed up the files I wanted to
> keep on a backup harddrive. I wiped out the main drive to install the new
> system on. After installing, I went to mount the backup drive and found
> that the partition table had been wiped out. If I fdisk the drive and print
> the partitions, nothing is listed. I did a dd on part of the device and
> strings'ed it, and found that my files were copied, but somehow the
> partitions are hosed so I can't mount the drive. There are binary files
> that I would like to recover, so just extracting the data with strings
> won't work. How would I go about recovering the files on the harddrive?
> It's not important enough to pay a company for backup recovery, but I'd
> like to get the data if it's possible. The backup drive is 40G and I have a
> spare 120G installed. The files backed up don't use the whole 40G.
>
> Thanks,
>
> =-= Robert T.
>
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