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  From: Darryl Ross <dross@syc.asn.au>
  To  : linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au
  Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 23:54:12 +0930

Unformating a partition

Hey All,

I've managed to do something really stupid... (hold the comments!)

While installing Mandrake 7 the other day, I managed to change the partition
type of a FAT32 partition to ext2 and format it. I want to know what tools
are available to me to recover the data on the drive. If I had just
formatted it, I could use DOS tools, but since I changed the type to ext2,
and formated the drive with a different file system, I am not sure if I can
recover the data.

My drives are set up like:

hda1        ext2        /boot    ~50Mb
hda2        fat32        C:        ~3Gb
hda3        fat32        Z:        ~3Gb    (this is the one I stuffed)
hdb1        ext2        /           ~6Gb
hdb2        swap                  ~100Mb

Teach me to not pay attention while partitioning drives. Anyway, the
partition I wiped contains (well, did contain) a lot of my data files,
including a large amount of downloaded programs, so if I can recover what's
on it, I'd really be able to breath a sigh of relief..

Dazz

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