SOLVED Undo accident with gparted?

ihrsetrdr · May 10, 2011

I was in a rush and accidentally deleted a partition(and clicked "apply") in gparted, that housed my backed-up files on a PATA drive. :bang head

In gparted under Edit, the "undo last operation" feature is grayed out, is there any hope for recovery?

I'm off to jury duty for the day; I really hope that this stupid disaster can be undone.

Edward78 · May 10, 2011

Seems like there would be, I think it only deleted the info saying the location of the data & the data is still there.

Stratus_ss · May 10, 2011

if you havent formatted or done anything reconstructing teh partition walls will usually restore your data. I have done this before without consequence but as always YMMV!

also if you can try testdisk.

Shelnutt2 · May 10, 2011

Testdisk is your best bet, here is an example, http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Step_By_Step . (Windows but it'll be very similar in linux)

ihrsetrdr · May 10, 2011

Testdisk saved my bacon- thanks guys! Whew, I can't be doing this again, maybe need to set up daily backups to a machine that I can't touch and screw up.

Stratus_ss · May 10, 2011

Hey now what am i chopped liver?

I suggested it first I just didnt put the fancy how-to link

ihrsetrdr · May 10, 2011

Stratus_ss said:
Hey now what am i chopped liver?

I suggested it first I just didnt put the fancy how-to link

Stratus_ss,

very shortly after I posted, I noticed that you did in fact mention testdisk, and edited my post from "thanks Shelnutt" to "thanks guys", but alas- the post got viewed in its original form. :shrug:

Stratus_ss · May 11, 2011

Haha no worries I was just poking fun

SOLVED Undo accident with gparted?

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