A tool for Ext? partitions.

[jd1008]

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 :)

Regards,

JD