On Fri, 07 Aug 2009, narendra sisodiya wrote:
is it possible to recover data from formatted ext3 partition. Actually while installing ubuntu 9.04 , installer misbehaved with me and formatted my /home partition and thus i lost my valueble data. the new partition is ext4 type. I tried with testdisk but unable to recover any bit !! anythought ??
Simple, restore from a backup. oh wait, you DO have a backup don't you ?
:)
repeat after me:
I will ALWAYS do a backup BEFORE I install.
That was mistake no 1.
Mistake no 2 was to keep using the partition.
What you need to do is:
remount the partition ro
dd the partition over to another disk
work on the dd'd image
google for undeletion howto, though it is pretty outdated the last time I checked.
then google some more.
hth,
Sharukh.