It was a FAT filesystem, but will the program work if used on an ext3 file system? Also, if I reformat the drive with FAT again will it work? And, if neither option will work, how would I manually retreive the data?
It was a FAT filesystem, but will the program work if used on an ext3 file system? Also, if I reformat the drive with FAT again will it work? And, if neither option will work, how would I manually retreive the data?
If you did a Quick Format, then it should be almost entirely recoverable, but if you did a Full Format, then you're doomed.
If you formatted it into another filesystem, it is generally more difficult to recover it and some files which were situated in the first sectors will probably be unrecoverable.
You can google for good recovery programs. For example SpinRite.
Last edited by maxorator; 03-11-2008 at 05:47 AM.
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Yes, in the sense that a shredded document is theoretically recoverableOriginally Posted by maxorator
Quick format or not, formatting the disk wipes out the FAT. Your file data is still there but you have no way to piece it all together.
