[CentOS] Need a Centos 6 USB hard drive recovery procedure

[m.roth at 5-cent.us]

John R Pierce wrote:
> On 5/9/2013 1:41 PM, Rock wrote:
>> Since none of the files were deleted or written over, is
>> there a method on Linux that will simply recover the missing
>> file allocation directory structure instead of dumping a
>> hundred thousand files into a single directory?
>
> the FAT contains all the file linkage.   if it was overwritten, then
> there's no file structure left at all on the disk.
>
Are you sure that the FAT was mangled, and not just the MBR?

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