On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 2:14 PM, Oyunbileg Baatar <jstbve...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Will it be possible to recover the windows files from the external hard >> disc ?? > > It's possible to recover entire partition with help of "testdisk". > Whether it is windows file or linux file it can scan and recover the > partition it self.
Even if the files have been *overwritten*? > So try to live book Ubuntu or other OS which runs "testdisk" recovery tool. > then scan your hard disk. > > It can recover partition which is even deleted or formatted. I have used testdisk to do the above. No doubt, it is a very powerful tool but it cannot do magic. Files overwritten by a Linux installation on newly formatted ext3/4 partition may not be recoverable. From the OP, I believe this is what has happened. > I've formatted my whole partition table and it recovered them all. Please share your scenario detail. It would help recover files from a 1TB clobbered ext4 file system, I posted for help in the Chennai ILUG mailing list. <http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/pipermail/ilugc/2012-September/073428.html> Thanks, -- Arun Khan _______________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List
