I can finally go to sleep now knowing I have my important data back. Pressing 'C' to copy that folder and it's child objects in to your recovery folder.ĭMA enabled on your drive? Does your drive support it? There are are a couple of NTFS and EXT partitions displayed. I think it is listing past partitions on my drive.
TestDisk should now list a series of partitions. TestDisk should now scan your device for partitions (If it hasn't already discovered them). Select which device to use for me it was /dev/hdaĬhoose 'Analyze' then 'Proceed' then select 'Search'. There are some examples of how to use TestDisk here ()
The following steps may not replicate your needs. Ok we have TestDisk and PhotoRec installed.Ĭhange to the folder of where you want to recover your files to. I thought I would try alien out for the first time. However there was a rpm on the main website. The version on the repositories is not the current version. I came across TestDisk ().ĭon't ask me which repo it is on. I was not paying the best of attention when I broke it but I believe I accidentally installed grub to /dev/hda instead of /dev/sda! Maybe?Īfter trying ddrescue and failing. I have all my music, videos, thunderbird profile, everything on this one drive! I was unable to mount it or use ntfsfix or even chkdsk from the recovery console off the windows xp install CD. Somewhere along the line I hurt my NTFS data partition. I was making the transition from windows xp to Ubuntu Edgy. I though it was necessary to share my experience. I have been up for 36 hours trying various methods to recover my lost data! Given that i'm not the most confident Linux user and I managed to succeed.
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