Re: kubuntu - ntfs formated to ext3

On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 15:27:40 +0000, spike1 wrote:

ray <ray@xxxxxxxxxx> did eloquently scribble:
On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 00:48:49 -0700, rork01@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

Hello,

During the installation of Kubuntu 7.04 (and I was so happy about new
version...) installator for some uknown reason formated NTFS partition
instead of other prepared partition. Thanks to that, my 40 GB NTFS
partition is now ext3 partition without any data. Could you please
propose some software (for windows or linux) to restore that data or
maybe just some part of it?

I appreciate any help!

Cheers,
Rork

That would depend on whether it actually formatted or simply changed the
partition identifier. I would try this: use gparted or another partition
editor to change the identifier back to ntfs, but don't format it. Then
(you might need to reboot) mount it and see if it's intact.

I think he nuked it, the partition identifier would've changed the partition
ID to linux, not ext3. That's a filesystem.

Probably so. This was the only thing I could think of that might work -
but, yes, I imagine it's gone.

.

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