recovering a partition

Hello!

I wanted to change the filesystem of my ex-windows partition (I just wanted
to finish the migration from win 2 Linux) from vfat to ext3, but when I made
its backup I copied only one file instead of the whole partition. I would
like to restore it if possible.

The partition was vfat, now is ext3, and I already made a dd of it. (When it
was ext3.)

Is there a way to save my data? How can I do it?

Thanks, V


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Re: recovering a partition

On Sat, 2005-12-10 at 12:27 +0100, Nagy Viktor wrote:

> I wanted to change the filesystem of my ex-windows partition (I just wanted
> to finish the migration from win 2 Linux) from vfat to ext3, but when I made
> its backup I copied only one file instead of the whole partition. I would
> like to restore it if possible.
>
> The partition was vfat, now is ext3, and I already made a dd of it. (When it
> was ext3.)
>
> Is there a way to save my data? How can I do it?

Since you already formatted the drive as another file system, it will be
difficult to retrieve files. It is still possible to find some as long
as you didn't do bad-block testing or use some other method that wrote
data to the partition before formatting.

'grep' and 'dd' will be your most common commands.

For somewhat more high-level tools, take a look at the man page for
magicrescue:

http://jbj.rapanden.dk/magicrescue/manpage.html

Good luck!

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Chris Largret

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Re: recovering a partition

On 12-10, Chris Largret wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-12-10 at 12:27 +0100, Nagy Viktor wrote:
>
> > I wanted to change the filesystem of my ex-windows partition (I just wanted
> > to finish the migration from win 2 Linux) from vfat to ext3, but when I made
> > its backup I copied only one file instead of the whole partition. I would
> > like to restore it if possible.
> >
> > The partition was vfat, now is ext3, and I already made a dd of it. (When it
> > was ext3.)
> >
> > Is there a way to save my data? How can I do it?
>
> Since you already formatted the drive as another file system, it will be
> difficult to retrieve files. It is still possible to find some as long
> as you didn't do bad-block testing or use some other method that wrote
> data to the partition before formatting.
>
> 'grep' and 'dd' will be your most common commands.
>
> For somewhat more high-level tools, take a look at the man page for
> magicrescue:
>
> http://jbj.rapanden.dk/magicrescue/manpage.html
>
> Good luck!
>
> --
> Chris Largret

I just noticed "Test Disk" at SourceForge.. You may want to
check into that.. SF has a bazillion recovery apps..

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