Data recovery

mike_morley · 05-23-2007, 05:09 AM

How can I recover an entire partition of deleted file? The file system on the drive was fat32.

I moved all my files onto a new 500GB sata drive and the drive has gone tits up on me. So I need to recover everything off my old drive... About 200GB of data.

Anybody have any ideas?

syg00 · 05-23-2007, 06:11 AM

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Originally Posted by mike_morley

How can I recover an entire partition of deleted file? The file system on the drive was fat32.

I moved all my files ...

Depends what you mean.
Did you copy (then delete ???) the files, did you move them (Linux mv command), did you delete the partition(s), did you reformat the partition(s), something else entirely ... ???

Undelete for fat is pretty common - at least under 'doze. Haven't looked from the Linux perspective I must admit.

lein · 05-23-2007, 06:21 AM

try testDisk. as long as you haven't written over the data it could work.

do you mean you deleted the partition.
if you deleted the partition and not the data testDisk will work.

mike_morley · 05-23-2007, 07:11 AM

it was a mv from one disk to another. I was backing up my system so I could install another flavour of Linux.