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!