Re: Accidental deletion. Help please!

"Don Phillipson" <d.phillipsonSPAMBLOCK@xxxxxx> writes:

"Louis Ning" <louis731@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1177717261.620859.123670@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

I just accidentally deleted a directory on a FAT32 partition, I am
facing a great loss if I can't recover the data. I need the data
recovered.

I'm running ubuntu 6.06 linux and I haven't carried out any writing
activities on the partion since the horrible deletion.

What undelete facilities do you have? If in your position
(1) So long as the Windows swap file was on a different
logical drive I would boot Windows and use Vcom PowerDesk's
standard UNDELete function.
(2) If the Win swap file were on the same drive, I should
take the drive out and mount it in a different PC, then #1.

Well, I would first make sure that the partition was unmounted. Then I
would mount it read only, and use dd to make an exact copy of it to another
partition, and only work on that exact copy.

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Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)


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