On Friday 07 March 2003 02:34 pm, Hugo Ideler wrote: > It's ext3, but I must add that the formating of wasn't very far when I > hit the power-off. But I suppose this won't make much of a difference? > > But isn't it possible to recover files in the style that it is possible > to recover files deleted (not shreded)? Deleted files after all don't > have an entry in the FAT anymore? > > I also had some important data in my ~/Mail folder. Mail from my pop > account, so it's not remotely stored. And I of course was stupid and lazy > enough to not back things up. > > So i'd be happy enough if I could just recover my home directory. :) > > --Azaghal
May be off base but what hapens if you create a new partition with the exact same geometry , then mount the partiton without initializing it. The program 'ntfsresize' does something similar to this and seems to work. -- Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]