Re: [gentoo-user] unformat a partition

[Robert Persson <ireneshusband@yahoo.co.uk>]

On Thursday 16 March 2006 09:15 Nick Smith was like:
> i just accidentally blew away my ntfs partition with the gentoo
> install cd (formatted hda1 instead of hdb1) is there a way to unformat
> if it was just done? like undo the format information? i formatted
> with ext3.

IMPORTANT: Please don't follow the following advice until you have had a 
second opinion from someone else—I think this will work, but I can't swear it 
will:

Reformat to NTFS and then use a recovery tool. If I remember right, windows 
fdisk is pretty insistent on doing a low level format, so you would be safer 
using the gnu tool for formatting. I don't know whether the gnu ntfs tools 
are up to the recovery job, or whether you need to use something proprietary.

If you are lucky you may be able to read the old data on the newly created 
partition without needing to use a recovery tool (I was able to do that with 
a linux partition once—can't remember if it was reiserfs or ext3), but I 
would copy all the files somewhere safe in any case because even very minor 
corruption could come back to haunt you later (as many theologians never tire 
of reminding us).
-- 
Robert Persson

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