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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