[ale] Stupid data recovery question for file system gurus

[rfaulkner at Tux86.org (Rich Faulkner)]

Thanks Mike (and all) who have responded thus far.  Still interested in
feedback as I'll be imaging this drive soon to attempt recovery.  Just
want to gather some steam before I go up the learning curve (again).

Cheers.......RinL


On Fri, 2012-03-16 at 15:33 -0400, mike at trausch.us wrote:

> On 03/14/2012 02:37 PM, Rich Faulkner wrote:
> > Scenario:  Single bootable and healthy Windows NTFS partition is
> > overwritten with ext4 and Linux system in simple scheme of / and swap
> > (using entire disk).  Is there "any" way of restoring old (Windows) data
> > from the now reformatted disk?  (Freeware or otherwise)
> 
> Definitely image the drive, and then scan it.
> 
> There are some good tools out there; one that I have used in the past
> was actually written by the USAF, called foremost.  There is also a
> program called photorec that does similar things, but is better suited
> to different types of files than foremost (as can probably be figured by
> the name).
> 
> Always do your scanning on the image, though, and don't expect to be
> able to recover everything -- the mere act of creating a new
> (incompatible) filesystem over top of another one can destroy lots of
> data.  I would not be surprised if you get no or little data.
> 
> 	--- Mike
> 
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