[ale] Stupid data recovery question for file system gurus

[Brian Mathis]

You could try a few things:

- Use 'dd' to grab a complete image of the drive in case you need to
try multiple destructive things
- Not sure if you get get everything back, but the Windows program
"Recuva" can probably locate the data files.


❧ Brian Mathis


On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 2:37 PM, Rich Faulkner <rfaulkner at tux86.org> wrote:
> Scenario:  Single bootable and healthy Windows NTFS partition is overwritten
> with ext4 and Linux system in simple scheme of / and swap (using entire
> disk).  Is there "any" way of restoring old (Windows) data from the now
> reformatted disk?  (Freeware or otherwise)
>
> TIA..........RinL