Howto recover data from ntfs after suse dual boot install
System: Pent 4 3ghz, 1gb ram, 160gb hdd & so on.
Former XP install: c:/ ~ 60gb, d:/ ~ 100gb. What happened: De-fragmented d: (less than a fifth full) All data in drive placed well before first third of drive. Using Suse 9.2 CD went ahead and resized d: down to 60gb Created: swap, /boot & / and installed. Apparently I missed or perhaps misread the notice warning about data on the unused resized partition, d: was about to be formatted along with my newly created / (hda3). I expected XP not to recognize d: I laid that expectation on Linux (it sees it as an empty drive). Could the data still be there intact waiting for the partition table to be reconstructed? If the drive was indeed formated are there any data recovery utilities available? Any aid in retrieving this lost drive will be greatly appreciated! jdlr p.s: my back up media (DVDs) are physically damaged. :mad: |
Re: Howto recover data from ntfs after suse dual boot install
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If you determine to try it, use the fdisk utility in linux to delete the partitions and create it again. For some reason unknown to me, Windows typically leaves apx 8MB free next to some ntfs partitions. Quote:
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Try this also (perhaps first). run "fdisk -l" to have a look at your drive. After you make are sure that you have the drive name correct, try "guessfstype /dev/hd??" (replacing the ??, obviously). If it does indeed say ext3 or reiserfs, then it has been formated. If not, then you may want to make sure that it is mounted ("cat /proc/mounts"). |
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