Any Tool To Recover

veeramani · 03-21-2007, 05:50 AM

Hai everybody,

Just i formatted a FAT32 partition and format it to EXT3 for RHEL 4. Now the Kid is crying , that the forgot to backup the data in it. Is there anyway to revert it back to FAT32 ????
Or is there anyway to recover it back . Your advice/assisstance are invited.

Any special tools there???
Thank you

tronayne · 03-21-2007, 06:43 AM

No. When you format or create a file system whatever was there is gone the the Great Byte Bucket in the Sky.

Can you revert back to FAT32? Well, sure -- but you're not going to find anything there when you do.

syg00 · 03-21-2007, 08:23 AM

Mmmm - not strictly true.
mkefs writes the fs metadata, but doesn't re-write the entire partition.
Likely a deal of data will be lost, but some of the forensic tools will help. It'll be a pain, and slow - start with something like photorec, then maybe foremost.

This comes up (at least) every week - hit the search button.

veeramani · 03-21-2007, 08:33 AM

hi everybody

Thank you very much