Restoring lost data?

[jfg69]

Ca I use anything *mix to search for and restore the data I lost on the WinXP partition? It appears that there "may" be something still there:

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Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1        7649    61440561    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2            7650       15587    63761985    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3           15588       18774    25599577+  83  Linux
/dev/sda4           18775       27673    71481217+  83  Linux


Unless its just "empty" space?... I havent been on THAT partition since PartitionMagic wiped it out on a botched merge last night. I tried to access it from My Computer and all I get is o you wish to format E:/?

[TheeMahn]

I would try Ultimate boot CD. There are many recovery tools on it. Don't let it commit changes until you are sure the info it is finding to be legit.

[jfg69]

Thanks, I am downloading that as well as a forensic boot disk, see what happens.

[TheeMahn]

Thanks, I am downloading that as well as a forensic boot disk, see what happens.

I though I would point out one of the negatives of using XFS as a file system, a positive to me if you delete a file that resides on a XFS file system, it is gone for good and forensic utilities can not recover it. My cousin is a cop college trained in forensics. XFS is a hackers friend However if you lose a file it is gone period. EXT3 no problem.

[jfg69]

OK, well- I was able to find most of the files. Seems that Partiton Magic screwed up somehow and "unformatted" the drive, the files are still there, just not accessible by anything but recovery software.

I am now at a loss for space, since I cant use the space that the former E:/ was using, since it still holds my files. Anyway, the idea was to just move the files to my *nix partition by just going into my C:/ drive and removing files from there so I would have room to recover from the f'd up drive. Simple, yes? NO....

*nix is no longer seeing my WIN partitions at all... how the heck do I get those back? I tried mounting with

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sudo mount -a

but thats not working, all I get is THIS..

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Failed to access '/dev/disk/by-uuid/9024CA1024C9F8EC': No such file or directory
Failed to access '/dev/disk/by-uuid/5888081B8807F672': No such file or directory


wtf...

[jfg69]

BTW,

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sudo fdisk -l

Gets me this:

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Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1        7649    61440561    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2            7650       15587    63761985    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3           15588       18774    25599577+  83  Linux
/dev/sda4           18775       27673    71481217+  83  Linux


sda1 is where my C:/ is, sda2 is where the "lost" files are...
sda3 is my straight up Gutsy and sda4 is this, my UUEG partition...

[jfg69]

I went over to my 7.10 install and copied the fstab and placed the appropriate line in my Ultimate Edition fstab...

LOOK, I have a XP drive again... yay

LOL, if only I could get the lost files back so easily! no such luck...

[jfg69]

To hell with all this.. I just bought a new 360GB HDD to put my /home and newest Ultimate Edition on Now I can sift thru all my old hard drives and build a NEW share file after I delete all the old windowz programs I was "archiving" and clean up this mess once and for all!

[DaddyX3]

Sounds like me! I had a similar problem, but my pob was that Vista had created a "dynamic volume" and I couldn't acces it in any way through Ultimate Edition. I actually had to reinstall Vista on a seperate partition of one of my other drives so I could have access to my media on this "dynamic volume". Unfortunately I don't have enough space on my other drives to transfer (within Vista) files to my other drives! bummer deal I posted about this prob, but no one has a response to this yet.