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Special Forums Hardware Filesystems, Disks and Memory Recover a mistaken swap-formated USB-HD Post 302796919 by IMPe on Sunday 21st of April 2013 11:13:00 AM
Old 04-21-2013
Recover a mistaken swap-formated USB-HD
Hi!
Installing the debian wheezy by netinstall my external USB-HD (2TB) is erroneously completly formated as swap-filesystem. I was to lazy to disconnect the USB-HD, so now i could kick myself .
Is there any chance to rescue the data. I tried to find a way by using
gparted: the whole HD is swap-fs. I only check with gparted, i didn't do any format-action.
and
testdisk. analyze and deeper search

both only see swap-fs and testdisk cant find anything.
I need a helping hint, because i need urgently some of the primary stored backup-data.

thanks in advance
IMPe
 

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testdisk

TESTDISK(8)						       Administration Tools						       TESTDISK(8)

NAME

       testdisk - Scan and repair disk partitions

SYNOPSIS

       testdisk [/log] [/debug] [/dump] [device|image.dd|image.e01]

       testdisk /version

       testdisk /list [/log]

DESCRIPTION

	  TestDisk checks and recovers lost partitions
	  It works with :
	  - BeFS (BeOS)
	  - BSD disklabel (FreeBSD/OpenBSD/NetBSD)
	  - CramFS, Compressed File System
	  - DOS/Windows FAT12, FAT16 and FAT32
	  - HFS and HFS+, Hierarchical File System
	  - JFS, IBM's Journaled File System
	  - Linux ext2/ext3/ext4
	  - Linux Raid
	    RAID 1: mirroring
	    RAID 4: striped array with parity device
	    RAID 5: striped array with distributed parity information
	    RAID 6: striped array with distributed dual redundancy information
	  - Linux Swap (versions 1 and 2)
	  - LVM and LVM2, Linux Logical Volume Manager
	  - Mac partition map
	  - Novell Storage Services NSS
	  - NTFS (Windows NT/2K/XP/2003/Vista/...)
	  - ReiserFS 3.5, 3.6 and 4
	  - Sun Solaris i386 disklabel
	  - Unix File System UFS and UFS2 (Sun/BSD/...)
	  - XFS, SGI's Journaled File System

	  It can undelete files from
	  - DOS/Windows FAT12, FAT16 and FAT32
	  - Linux ext2
	  - NTFS (Windows NT/2K/XP/2003/Vista/...)

OPTIONS

       /log   create a testdisk.log file

       /debug add debug information

       /dump  dump raw sectors

       /list  display current partitions

SEE ALSO

       fdisk(8), photorec(8).

AUTHOR

       TestDisk 6.13, Data Recovery Utility, November 2011
       Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
       http://www.cgsecurity.org

2011								     November							       TESTDISK(8)
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