Nuked HDD

Nige · 09-11-2005, 09:56 PM

I run ubuntu (Debian Based linux distro), and I nuked my file system twice with the mkfs command. I am hoping that I can get the files back off my hdd. I have not written anything to this HDD since then as it is a spare HDD.

Is there anyway to undo the mkfs or have I just lost all my data?

I am still a newbie to linux.

Thanks in Advance.

Regards
-Nigel

Matir · 09-11-2005, 10:16 PM

You might be able to recover the data. Maybe. Check out this information: http://lists.netisland.net/archives/.../msg00099.html

Hope it helps somewhat.

fotoguy · 09-11-2005, 10:43 PM

You maybe able to use symantec ghost 8.0 and make an image of the drive, then use ghost explorer that comes with ghost to open up and read the image. I had a problem with a usb flash drive that had a corrupted mbr and kept coming up with i/o errors and would not read or even recognise the dirve as being there, but ghost was able to make an image of it and then I could retrieve just about all the files that I needed under ghost explorer. I think You can download a trial version of ghost from the symantec site.