Re: [CentOS] Retrive data from repartitioned / reformatted hard drive?

Niki Kovacs wrote:

Hi,

The title says it all. One of my clients showed me a 120 GB hard drive that his daughter accidentally formatted, according to him. I booted the first CD I had at hand - a Slackware 11.0 install CD - and launched cdfdisk /dev/hda. cfdisk informed me that there was even no partition table. So much for reformatting. cfdisk only shows me 120 GB of free space.

Any way to retrive data on this hard drive? Some magic live distribution to read data on repartitioned / reformatted hard drives? any suggestions?

I have used testdisk with excellent results. Read about its features, capabilities and limitations at http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

Good luck!