Cannonfodder Posted March 25, 2004 Share Posted March 25, 2004 I have a media partition, hdc9, that is a fat32 partition. Because I have an alias alias media='cd /mnt/media' and typed rm -f media (was removing another folder called media) It deleted all the files in my media partition. I've spent the evening trying to find a way to restore these files. I need something that will start at the root and undelete everything. I haven't made any further changes to the partition by adding/deleting files. I tried using winxp, figuring there is a tool I could use, but for some reason, it won't see the media partition (win2k could). This means it must be a linux solution. I tried mundelete (sourceforge) but it didn't do anything I could detect and didn't explain why. I am downloading a Emergency Boot CD containing Norton Undelete. But I don't think it will find the media partition either. Hopefully I am wrong :( Any ideas or anyone know how to get this back? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted March 25, 2004 Share Posted March 25, 2004 See villa's post http://www.MandrakeUsers.org/index.php?sho...st&p=100456 I used it and it worked very well. HOWEVER. WHatever you do, DO NOT write anythign to that partition till you use that tool otherwise oyu could overwrite somehting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted March 25, 2004 Share Posted March 25, 2004 Both parted and diskdrake have rescued partitions for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cannonfodder Posted March 25, 2004 Author Share Posted March 25, 2004 bvc, this is a file delete, not a partition delete, get glasses (j/k) :) I'll try the Emergency boot and see if it works. Problem may be that the partition will not be accessable due to its unusual location hdc9 in a linux extended partition. Will see what happens :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted March 25, 2004 Share Posted March 25, 2004 k,....so????? undelete the partition and get your file B) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cannonfodder Posted March 26, 2004 Author Share Posted March 26, 2004 hmmm, is there something I'm missing? (need glasses?) I deleted all the files, not the partition.. the partition still exists.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted March 26, 2004 Share Posted March 26, 2004 (edited) Oh, k, well, your thread title has vfat in it which implies partition. Sorry! You wanted me to read your post? So anything work yet? Norton? I used that in win98 to undelete files and it worked great. been airheaded the past couple of days becasue of a new chemical at work and a broken exhaust fan. They're killing me here Edited March 26, 2004 by bvc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cannonfodder Posted March 27, 2004 Author Share Posted March 27, 2004 lol :) Take all your clothes off and then go to work and claim that you didn't realize it due to the broken fan and chemicals :) I can't try Norton undelete on this partition because no win utility will locate it. Due to a weird partition table. Winxp sees it but won't mount it.. Just got a cpy of Partition Magic but whoever made an iso used Ez Creator and I can't read the iso image. Hasn't been my week at all, nope nope nope.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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