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HELP!! I need to undelete partition
Name: gustavox Date: October 14, 2003 at 21:09:37 Pacific OS: Mandrake9 CPU/Ram: 1700+ / 256 pc133
Comment:
I was using Partition magic under DOS to erase a partition but it was giving me error messages, so I used DOS FDISK to do it... the problem is that I deleted the wrong partition... my ext3 partition where I've got all my linux stuff... I have not made another partition or formatted anything... is there anything i can do to restore it... Please help me...
Name: The_File_Clerk Date: October 14, 2003 at 23:27:43 Pacific
Reply:
Hi,
Ouch! Don't worry though!
As long as nothing else is touched, there is a 99.9% chance of getting everything back. Your information is still there. Your files and even the format is still intact. The only trick is to reinflate the partition so any OS can recognize it.
What the fix boils down to, is how much money you want to spend. Numerous undelete utilities exist from Norton's to PowerQuest.
I suggest binarybiz's VirtualLab. You can try before you buy, and SEE for yourself if it can work for you at binarybiz.com.
Dear God, I sound like an advertisement. Someone shoot me.
-J
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Response Number 2
Name: Johanovitch Date: October 16, 2003 at 15:45:08 Pacific
Reply:
Hi, I used testdisk to recover a partially formatted partition. Worked like a charm and it's free. Only thing is that the documentation is not so good.
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