pewusoft Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 I've accidentally formatted my NTFS partition with important data by Disk Utility in Leopard install dvd. Somebody know how to recover my data? Any help will be really appreciated. Thanks in advance. PS. Sorry for my poor english. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chacaito Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 Try to boot with a LiveCD of Linux, set your partition to 7 (ntfs) (with fdisk) and try to mount your partition into linux, you will see if the data are still there. good luck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pewusoft Posted December 28, 2008 Author Share Posted December 28, 2008 now: * fdisk shows this partition as NTFS * parted shows this partition as HFS+ * mount can't mount it with -t ntfs option and with no switches mount mounts it as hfs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chacaito Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 mmm! You now should try ntfs recovery or utility like that in linux (try google) and hope you can get your files. In ubuntu, the ntfsprogs provide ntfsrecovery, but the man page said: Miracles ntfsundelete cannot perform the impossible. So I'm not sure it will be possible to get it back. There is also ntfsinfo which will tell you if there is anymore inode table (index files) or the mft. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pewusoft Posted December 28, 2008 Author Share Posted December 28, 2008 ntfsundelete unfortunately works only on ntfs-formatted volume. i must add, that this partition was extended partition. is there any hope for my data? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chacaito Posted December 29, 2008 Share Posted December 29, 2008 When you format a partition, usually it's only write the index and nothing else. So, you have to fix the ntfs index info (mft) I think there is 2 copies of it, in case, so with a tool to fix a ntfs partition, perhaps you can fix it and then retreive some files. If you loose your partition also, you have to find it before (perhaps with http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk) testdisk. Try it with testdisk, that's the only hope you have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pewusoft Posted December 29, 2008 Author Share Posted December 29, 2008 With testdisk, i've managed to repair boot sector for this partition and now i have my data back (i didn't knew, that boot sector must be correct in order to access any data on NTFS volume). Then i've used chkdsk to recreate security descriptors for files and now everything seems ok. thanks a lot for your help! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kris404 Posted December 29, 2008 Share Posted December 29, 2008 Try Runtime GetDataBack for NTFS. I have recovered countless disks in the past using the tool. http://www.runtime.org/data-recovery-downloads.htm Kris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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