From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FJw9D-00052b-IU for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 16 Mar 2006 17:20:28 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5.20060308/8.13.5) with SMTP id k2GHJTuf003668; Thu, 16 Mar 2006 17:19:29 GMT Received: from xproxy.gmail.com (xproxy.gmail.com [66.249.82.194]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5.20060308/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k2GHFPrm011646 for ; Thu, 16 Mar 2006 17:15:25 GMT Received: by xproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id h29so296749wxd for ; Thu, 16 Mar 2006 09:15:25 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=RE8tEqmPm80X/OK33F6nYy3bNUhsio3AfnKilidhHw3/aEMkN8CggoEfcF9/zXyTo6/vZLOBtmQDxUiZZ7Ul82HN4nlzowxVvZpfyLk6FMSCkqM4jS/QrXgzqWe5LtP1jwQOsBIutMQLQgMGyNt/+Wnvuoy8d6xDCgdbkVx9eMM= Received: by 10.70.118.14 with SMTP id q14mr2273505wxc; Thu, 16 Mar 2006 09:15:24 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.70.77.5 with HTTP; Thu, 16 Mar 2006 09:15:24 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 12:15:24 -0500 From: "Nick Smith" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] unformat a partition Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id k2GHFPrm011646 X-Archives-Salt: 30d07ff6-a871-4096-9b2f-220ed92095f0 X-Archives-Hash: 2e6dfd8fce5a9af3d06ea2b8fd6d6677 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. ordinarily i wouldnt mind, but i have some VERY important information on there and a ton of pictures i cannot lose (originals). i can probably use getdataback when i get home just wanted to know if there was another way since im still at the prompt on the install cd now. thanks (bangs head on wall) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list