Recovery of formatted ext3 partition


 
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Old 02-22-2011
Recovery of formatted ext3 partition

Hi!

I have a really big problem right now. I (accidently) formatted a ext3 partition with "mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda1". The problem is that I REALLY need some files from there. The partition had a size of about 4GB, after accidently formatting it, I accidently rewrote Grub on it Smilie I hope I didn't permanently deleted important files...
I just need some scripts (.sh scripts) and images (.png) on the partition, I tried PhotoRec and TestDisk. Or I can't figure out how to correctly use them or they can't find any files Smilie
What is the best way to recover files in my case? I tried searching but couldn't find anything usefull, so you are my last hope Smilie

Thanks A LOT for help!!
gr33tz, alex

Last edited by al0x; 02-22-2011 at 10:31 AM..
# 2  
Old 03-27-2011
i'm posting too late, but if you still have that disk, try this
# 3  
Old 04-12-2011
Hey
Thanks for the link
But it didn't work...
I checked all superblocks I found on the disk but none still holds files from my old files Smilie
I tried it again with Testdisk with every option possible, but same problem...
Is it even possible to recover something at this point?
Could an Recovery-Expert do something?
# 4  
Old 04-12-2011
You could try something like magicrescue, which scans sector-by-sector to hunt for fragments of previous files without caring about the filesystem at all. Beyond that you're probably out luck.
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