On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 12:47 AM, Navaneethan <[email protected]>wrote:

> prasannatsmkumar <prasannatsmkumar@...> writes:
>
>
> > It may or may not be possible. If the file was over written by new files
> > (same hard disk location). Tools are available in net. Most of them are
> > costly. You can google and get a list of such software.
>
> I tried "testdisk" and "photorec" I recovered few files only. But the data
> is
> important.Is it possible to get the paid service to recover the data? Not
> the
> over written still as for known.
>
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Once physically over written it is not possible to get back the data. But
before that you just do a backup of that partition. Use dd
if=/dev/<partition> of=/home/<user>/<backup_file_name>
bs=<size_of_partition_in_bytes>. This will help you to recover files in
future if you come to know about any service like that. There are excellent
paid tools available for this work. I will try to get the name of the tool
from my friends (windows only tools) so that you can recover them. Please
wait for a day I will get back.
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