[ale] OT: unformat for fat

[PBoyington at polyengineering.com (Preston Boyington)]

Geoffrey wrote:
> Preston Boyington wrote:
>> Geoffrey wrote:
>> 
>>> Anyone know of an app that will unformat a fat partition in order to
>>> recover the files that were on the partition prior to the idiot
>>> formatting it???
>> 
>> 
>> so why did you format it?
>> 
>> ;-)
> 
> because I'm an idiot...
> 
> Actually, it was someone else in the family who was 'playing' with the
> digital camera and trashed the memstick that was in it. :(

of course you could try the Penguin Sleuth Kit
http://www.linux-forensics.com/