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bakgwailo
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 Posted: Fri Dec 20, 2002 12:52 am Post subject: hard disk recovery? |
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Hello, I recently formated a hard disk for a friend, and unfourtunatly he had some vital documents on it (and lost the paper copies.. *sigh*), is there any software on linux that would help me recover this ? (originally it was/still is a fat32 drive). I know there are a few programs on windows to do this, but I can not find a linux utility for it. Thanks!
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| Posted: Thu Jan 02, 2003 7:39 am Post subject: Re: hard disk recovery? |
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| bakgwailo wrote: | | Hello, I recently formated a hard disk for a friend, and unfourtunatly he had some vital documents on it (and lost the paper copies.. *sigh*), is there any software on linux that would help me recover this ? (originally it was/still is a fat32 drive). I know there are a few programs on windows to do this, but I can not find a linux utility for it. Thanks! |
I found this by using google:
fixdisktable-0.3.tar.gz
fixdisktable-0.3 binary
fixdisktable-0.2.tar.gz
fixdisktable-0.2 binary
If you somehow manage to corrupt your PC disk partition table, this Linux utility will attempt to recover it. It scans the disk looking for filesystems. It currently tries to recognize partitions of type FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, UFS, EXT2, or BSD disk labels. It should be able to handle disks of any size--I've tried in on a disk of 10GB. You will need to boot a Linux system to run this program. I would recommend trying Tom's Single Floppy Linux to get a running Linux system. Write fixdisktable to another floppy using another machine--it can be put on a vfat/msdos floppy. Then mount the floppy and run fixdisktable. It might not always get the partition table quite right. It tends to get very close, but the beginning or the end might be off by a few blocks. In that case, use fdisk to set the partitions to cylinder boundaries.
Here's the URL:
http://bmrc.berkeley.edu/people/chaffee/fat32.html
Good Luck!
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