On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 07:03:18AM -0700, Bry8 Star wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA512 > > You may try these out: > some are able to scan entire surface and able to recover file, some > can give you back entire FAT as well, but trial version will be > limited with certain files only, or files-only, etc: > > Power Data Recovery. > Paragon Hard Disk Manager. > EASEUS Data Recovery Wizard. > Active Partition Recovery. > DataNumen Data Recovery. > Spinrite. > (Sometime, HBD by Hiren is also useful, but usage is allowed only if > you really have licensed copy of those software, and care need to be > taken from altered, rootkit based releases). > > Most of these are Windows based software. Here's one I used several years ago to recover a drive I had stupidly attempted to format while it contained a couple hundred gigs of data, without which my son would have committed patricide... http://www.recoverdatatools.com/ my specific drive was either ext3 or ext4, and I had used mtools to write a DOS filesystem onto it, but hadn't done anything else. Using this tool I was able to recover what we believe to have been everything important. I had the Linux version, and I found it to be somewhat flaky, UI-wise, but with some repeated poking at it I managed to do what I needed. I attempted to contact their help desk but they didn't reply to any of my emails. So, buyer beware. They also have a windoze version that I haven't seen, and it's **possible** that it is less flaky. their web page says it can recover lost data from NTFS and FAT filesystems, so it's possible it would work for you... YMMV. http://www.recoverdatatools.com/windows-data-recovery.html It's non-free, but not terribly expensive. Good luck! I'd be interested in hearing if it works for you, should you wish to try it. Fred -- ---- Fred Smith -- fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us ----------------------------- The eyes of the Lord are everywhere, keeping watch on the wicked and the good. ----------------------------- Proverbs 15:3 (niv) -----------------------------