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

[Robert]

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!