Recovery procedures of NTFS filesystem

[Robert Brockway]

On Mon, 30 Jun 2008, Jamon Camisso wrote:

> Ah, right, that's because it is ext3 now. If the installer ran mkfs.ext3 then 
> the data is pretty much gone. Recovering the partition table wouldn't get it 
> back either unfortunately. Sorry to have instilled false hope :(

Not necessarily.  The data is largely untouched but all the references are 
gone.  There are tools which will scan the disk itself and attempt to 
recover files or pieces of files.  I've run these on ex-NTFS filesystems 
before.  I can't promise success but there are things to try.  Don't 
expect this to be quick - one tool I used scanned an 300GB NTFS disk for 
many hours.

William, the key is to not do anything else to the disk (reparition again, 
or whatever) without careful thought.  I can't remember the name of the 
tool I used last time but I'll see if I can remember.

Rob

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