Re: [SLE] Recover Deleted Files?

On Wednesday 31 May 2006 14:01, Dave Barton wrote:
Apologies to Carl for sending this direct, instead of to the list.

On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 07:29 -0400, Carl Hartung wrote:
On Wednesday 31 May 2006 07:17, David Barton wrote:
Although I have never used (or needed) it before, I am aware that there
is recovery software out there. Can anyone here suggest or recommend a
package (open source or commercial, I don't care) that might help get
me out of this predicament.

One possibility: I think 'mc' can recover 'deleted' files in certain
situations. Open a shell, type 'mc' and navigate to the partition
containing the data. Just take care not to write anything to that
partition until you've got what you want off of it.

Thanks Carl, but it appears that 'mc' can only do this with ext2fs and I
need to recover from fat32 & reiser. No I am not going write to either
of those 2 partitions. In fact I am not going to touch that box until I
am ready to attempt some kind of recovery, or reformat :_( the whole
flaming thing.

Recovery from FAT32 *is* possible. I did that once for my sister. Her
ex-boyfriend trashed her HD; fornutately the nitwit did a quick format on W98
or so, and I was able to recover most of the files.

The proggy was:

GetDataBack for FAT 2.20 (there's an NTFS version too)

http://www.runtime.org/

Alas it runs on XP.

Maybe superfluous:
* remove your HD if possible until you are ready, or do not use the
partition in question.
* make a backup of the HD, or the partition *first*, e.g.:
dd if=/dev/hda of=hda.img or dd if=/dev/hda21 of=hda21.img
* operate on the HD *or* on the copy, so you can restore from the
other if needed.

Cheers,

Leen

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