A tool for Ext? partitions.

[Fred Smith]

On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 09:50:08PM -0600, jd1008 wrote:
> 
> On 08/14/2014 09:31 PM, Fred Smith wrote:
> >On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 08:55:12PM -0600, jd1008 wrote:
> >>Need a tool that can scan an entire drive (which has no partition
> >>table - as it got accidentally clobbered by dd'ing 512 bytes into
> >>it), and determine start and end of ext(2/3/4) partitions.
> >>I need this so that I can restore each ext? partition to a separate HD.
> >>So far I have found a windows based tool from EaseUS.com , but is
> >>not open source and
> >>is not free.
> >a few years ago I wrote a DOS partition table over the top of
> >a USB drive containing an ext3 or ext4 partition, holding a couple
> >hundred gigs of my son's anime collection. one could deduce that
> >he wasn't happy.
> >
> >I found a program named something like "recover disk" or something
> >like that for sale for a reasonable price (39.95??? comes to mind),
> >from some outfit in India. they offered versions for windoze and
> >for linux, and both could allegedly recover stuff from ext partitions.
> >
> >so I bought it, and with some head-banging managed to recover all
> >the important files.
> >
> >I can dig around to see if I can find the actual name and/or a
> >URL, let me know if you want.
> >
> >Fred
> Thank you Fred.
> I am more keen on open source, because at this point, after
> having infected several windoze machines with for purchase
> software, I do not wish to indulge :)
> 

I wish you well! I purchased only becauase none of the free stuff I
tried seemed to do the job, including testdisk. I'm a cheapskate, so
you know I don't just go buy software on a whim (and I like libre
software too, if I can get it.)

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