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Recovery of deleted files on ext3 is impossible. This is done to make sure that the filesystem can be recovered after a power loss/kernel freeze/similar problem. Andreas Dilger, an ext3 developper said this:
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In order to ensure that ext3 can safely resume an unlink after a crash, it actually zeros out the block pointers in the inode, whereas
ext2 just marks these blocks as unused in the block bitmaps and marks the inode as "deleted" and leaves the block pointers alone.
Your only hope is to "grep" for parts of your files that have been deleted and hope for the best.
If you lost power, and corrupted your filesystem, the ext3 journal should get the filesystem back to a consistent state. You could also run fsck to attempt a repair. If your drive is physically damaged, you can't use a program to recover it.
Oh yeah. I almost forgot that EXT3 is journalised and will recover the data back.
But what about EXT2?
I have a little partition on that Hard-disk which is formatted as EXT2.
I don't think it is physically damaged though. I will try on that EXT2 partition. Is there any program that runs from Windows, and can get the Data back from EXT2?
Moreover what about FAT32, if anybody has one? but no Windows on the machine?
Just keen to know whether i can find any program to backup data from these obsolete file systems.
The file system was EXT2.
When I was listening to music, suddenly power went off, and when I restarted to listen it again, whoof! The folder had disappeared.
I have not written anything on that HD since then, hoping for a recovery.
Has the broken partition been checked with fsck or mounted read-write? (And is this your / partition?) That would lower your chances if you want to try to use some third-party recovery tool.
This is a program called Test-disk. I used it to get some files off my hdd after after changing the partitions. I don't know if it will work for you, but you can give it a try.
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