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I did a baaaad, baaaad thing - recover data from a formatted drive?

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ecskier

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Jan 19, 2005
Yupp... I am one of the dumbasses that is actually capable of accidentally reformatting my entire windows ntfs drive to ext3...

Any ideas on how to recover the data using either a bootdisk type of thing or a program that would run under linux (even using wine is fine...)?

I've got a lot of important stuff from the past 2 days that I hadn't gotten a chance to back up yet, so I REALLY NEED TO RECOVER THE DATA!

I know it's possible, just don't know what to use to do it...

Obviously any help would be greatly apreciated!!!!!
 
nono, didn't install anything over it, just ran a makefs.ext3 command on hda1 instead of hdb1...

I'll try that recovery suite thing and see what happens...

thanks for the help!
 
I've used GetDataBack and it's worked WONDERFUL for me...I once suddenly found one of my 40gb HDDs with just all unformatted space...it got everything back for me :)
 
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