Formatted Wrong Partition

[jmadero]

Hi All,

I formated a wrong partition. Is there an easy program to use to undo or fix it? The worst part is that I formatted it and then moved a partition over on the same driver....so everything might be overwritten

[b2bwild]

Always keep a backup of your Partition table.
If you have created new partition over it and used disk with new partition
recovery is too hard.

[jmadero]

How do I go about doing that for future reference...

Good news...I didn't format the wrong one....

weird news...until I restarted it was showing me that I had, I even clicked on the partition which was named after the one I should have formatted. It opened up, showed me what I didn't want to see. I restarted, now, it's showing me the new name of the partition and all of my files are there.....so strange

[Bemk]

Back-up, back-up and backup again, I think that's the next thing you should do.

I've got all of the files I want to keep backed up. On line or on memory sticks.

[jmadero]

lol it was backed up...I deleted both the main source and the backup in one go (two different partitions).

I actually installed XP just for a few minutes, ran a program called freeundelete, found my home folder and was able to scrap my stuff from it. All files names are wrong but I've already fixed about half of it including my email which is nice.

I am doing a backup as soon as I get home today then again once everything is actually done....probably will take me at least a week to rename files (first letter gone replaced with "/"). But all in all, good to be back on

[elija]

This is truly great backup software (Back In Time | le-Web.org)

[Jonathan183]

lol it was backed up...I deleted both the main source and the backup in one go (two different partitions).

that's not a backup ... thats just a copy ... CD/DVD/USB drives are just a pita until you need them
Anyway good luck with the data recovery ... I'm suprised testdisk didn't help out ...

[jmadero]

honestly...testdisk just isn't intuitive enough...I probably could have used it but compared to the freeunerase software, I couldn't ask for more. Basically I just installed windows, no drivers at all, installed that 2 meg program. It brought up a GUI like explorer, I did scan on my external hard drive and it detected the deleted home folder. Copied that to my internal drive, and now all is good.

I hope that something comes out in Linux that is a bit more intuitive than testdisk (although I'm sure it's a great piece of software). I read forum after forum of people looking for a nice, GUI, noob friendly Linux undelete/unpartition software and most referred to testdisk but warned it was a bit more advanced and no GUI. So....maybe some day. I hadn't installed Windows in years, all I can say is....I won't be installing it again any time soon ....well other than my VM....netflix needs to get on the ball and make their instant view linux friendly

[Bemk]

My back-ups all have a .backup extension. Linux can still read it but it notifies me that it's a back-up and I should stay away from it. Micro$oft Windohze gives some problems with it though. That's solved by making a special ext partition on the USB drive. Win can't read it so it won't throw any errors, and I can still do my back-ups.

[i92guboj]

Testdisk can guess a new partition table if the data is there, but it doesn't have divine powers. If you have stamped another partition on top of the old data you have absolutely zero chance to recover the presious contents, unless you are skilled enough in time travels.