On 29/06/07, Niki Kovacs <contact at kikinovak.net> 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? If the data's still there and it's just the partition table that's been blown away I think there are a few things that will scan a disk looking for the markers for partition information and attempt to reconstruct one. If that worked you theoretically can just repartition identically and the data may magically appear. http://www.ntk.net/index.cgi?b=02006-06-09&l=113#l Will