Recovering information from hard disk..

Coz

After a sudden power loss, my hard disk wouldn't boot because it couldn't mount 2 of my partitions. After running reiserfsck --rebuild-tree my system partition worked pretty well, but the partition with all my personal files just have this folder called lost+found ! I have seen that folder in other places.. but I have no idea what it is for. I guess it can help to recover my files.. but I have no idea how and googling for "lost+found" doesn't helps much except for the explanation about what that folder is..

*cries like a sissy*
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NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sat Dec 25, 2004 11:54 pm Post subject:

Coz,

lost+found is where the recovery tools put file fragments that were 'found' during recovery. Its up to you to make sense of anything you find there.
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Coz · Posted: Sun Dec 26, 2004 3:06 am Post subject:

Damn :s

When I just checked it seems that practically everything is ok.. the main problem is that since lost+found has files listed by numbers, it's tought figuring out what is inside XD

EDIT: Oh wait, some do have their names and extensions.. yay! ^^

Anyways, thanks!
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