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On Thursday 16 March 2006 09:15 Nick Smith was like: |
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> i just accidentally blew away my ntfs partition with the gentoo |
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> install cd (formatted hda1 instead of hdb1) is there a way to unformat |
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> if it was just done? like undo the format information? i formatted |
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> with ext3. |
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IMPORTANT: Please don't follow the following advice until you have had a |
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second opinion from someone else—I think this will work, but I can't swear it |
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will: |
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Reformat to NTFS and then use a recovery tool. If I remember right, windows |
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fdisk is pretty insistent on doing a low level format, so you would be safer |
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using the gnu tool for formatting. I don't know whether the gnu ntfs tools |
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are up to the recovery job, or whether you need to use something proprietary. |
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If you are lucky you may be able to read the old data on the newly created |
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partition without needing to use a recovery tool (I was able to do that with |
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a linux partition once—can't remember if it was reiserfs or ext3), but I |
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would copy all the files somewhere safe in any case because even very minor |
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corruption could come back to haunt you later (as many theologians never tire |
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of reminding us). |
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Robert Persson |
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Conspiracy Bears: |
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Once upon a time there were lots of conspiracy bears... |
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