[ale] Stupid data recovery question for file system gurus

[Pablo Ordonez]

Hi there

Yes you can recover it. It happened to me in my first Linux day.  I used
 Acronis to recover my inf,and the cost was about 50 bucks at that time.
What a debut :)

Pablo

On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 5:08 PM, Brian Mathis <
brian.mathis+ale at betteradmin.com> wrote:

> 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
>
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