Timeline for Recovering files on external disk caught in OS installation
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| May 11, 2011 at 1:25 | vote | accept | DarenW | ||
| May 11, 2011 at 1:25 | comment | added | DarenW | Whew, turns out I had a copy of my bacon on a laptop that I took in for repair, and just got back. The drive I was going to try testdisk on, having very little newer stuff, is now safe to toy with. I will experiment with testdisk for educational purposes. | |
| May 11, 2011 at 0:38 | comment | added | new123456 |
+1 Much less hackish and a better solution for binary files than grep/perl.
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| May 10, 2011 at 15:28 | comment | added | Journeyman Geek♦ | if possible, make a copy of the drive with DD. there's a howto on how to use testdisk on their site. | |
| May 10, 2011 at 14:36 | comment | added | DarenW | Testdisk looks powerful, and might do the job. Now how to figure out how to use it with no prior experience and without further risk to the clobbered data? | |
| May 10, 2011 at 11:01 | history | answered | Journeyman Geek♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |