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  From: MWP <hirm@chariot.net.au>
  To  : Darryl Ross <dross@syc.asn.au>
  Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2000 00:34:10 +0930

Re: Unformating a partition

Consider it gone.
There is almost no chance of you getting that partition back.

MWP


> 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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