problem in recovering deleted files bad magic number

anamika123 · 09-19-2004, 12:32 AM

I have accidently rm -rf ed some directory (in FAT32 partition) which I badely need. And then I did one more blunder I switched to windows to use some recovery utility of windows (I trusted them). It didn't showed up my files. Now when I am trying to recover the files through debugfs it is giving following error

/dev/hda8: Bad magic number in super-block while opening filesystem
lsdel: Filesystem not open

Is there still some hope left. I need my files badly. Please help me.

Thanks

Diademed · 09-19-2004, 02:09 PM

ooohh... magic... I think you might need magic to get those files from a recursive forced deletion back!

I could be wrong.... iirc there are companies that specialize in data recovery, might cost you a pretty penny though....