Emergency! Accidental format of ext3

J. Schaap jschaap-zC6tqtfhjqE at public.gmane.org
Mon Jan 24 20:09:31 UTC 2005


I recovered files from a reformatted drive with this application.
The strange thing is that it runs in MS Windows. It's free.

http://data-recovery-software.net/Linux_Recovery.shtml



On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 13:43 -0500, Madison Kelly wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
>    I just made a royal screw up and I need some serious help!
> 
>    I meant to run 'fsck.ext3 /dev/hda1' and instead ran 'mkfs.ext3 
> /dev/hda1'.
> 
>    Oh sh!t moment..
> 
>    I did this using Knoppix so the drive has not been touched yet. Is 
> there a way to recover the file system?
> 
> Madison
> 

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