Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on August 29, 2006 09:01 PM
Dunno about you all, but I recently 'wiped' (i.e, re-partitioned) one of my drives during an install. After those initial moments of dread, I took a few guesses at what the old partition layout (multiple partitions for boot/swap/root) was. Turns out that I ended up guessing correctly and all my files were where I had left them.
This doesn't help for formats, but if you re-partition your drive, you don't need expensive tools to get your data back, just fdisk (which is available on most install media windows/linux).
Oh and typing FDISK in all caps in the subject triggered the 'lameness' detector, which is lame in and of itself. Sheesh.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on August 29, 2006 09:01 PMThis doesn't help for formats, but if you re-partition your drive, you don't need expensive tools to get your data back, just fdisk (which is available on most install media windows/linux).
Oh and typing FDISK in all caps in the subject triggered the 'lameness' detector, which is lame in and of itself. Sheesh.
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