Dear Paul in Seattle<br>Yes, there is hope, as most of your data isn't gone at all.<br>You just need to boot into an Ubuntu LiveCd<br>this is from the community documentation: <br><h2 id="Lost Partition">Lost Partition</h2>
<span class="anchor" id="line-23"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-24"></span><p class="line874">If
you made a mistake while partitioning and the partition no longer
appears in the partition table, so long as you have not written data in
that space, all your data is still there. <span class="anchor" id="line-25"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-26"></span></p><p class="line867">
</p><h3 id="GNU Parted">GNU Parted</h3>
<span class="anchor" id="line-27"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-28"></span><p class="line874">Run Parted from the command line to recover your partition. <span class="anchor" id="line-29"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-30"></span></p>
<p class="line874">When
changing the partition table on your hard drive, you must ensure that
no partition on the disk is mounted. This includes swap space. The
easiest way to accomplish this is to run the live cd. Parted is
installed on the base Ubuntu system. Once at the desktop, open a
terminal and run_: <span class="anchor" id="line-31"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-32"></span></p><p class="line867"><span class="anchor" id="line-33"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-34"></span></p><pre>sudo swapoff -a</pre>
<span class="anchor" id="line-35"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-36"></span><p class="line874">Next
run parted and tell it to use the device in question. For example, if
your /dev/sda drive is the drive from which you want to recover, run: <span class="anchor" id="line-37"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-38"></span></p><p class="line867"><span class="anchor" id="line-39"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-40"></span></p>
<pre>sudo parted /dev/sda</pre><span class="anchor" id="line-41"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-42"></span><p class="line874">Then, use the rescue option: <span class="anchor" id="line-43"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-44"></span></p>
<p class="line874">rescue START END <span class="anchor" id="line-45"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-46"></span></p>where
Start is the area of the disk where you believe the partition began and
END is it's end. If parted finds a potential partition, it will ask you
if you want to add it to the partition table. <br>check out this link: <a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DataRecovery">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DataRecovery</a><br><br>Tommy in Pensacola<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 2:31 PM, Paul DeShaw <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pauldeshaw@gmail.com">pauldeshaw@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Greetings,<br><br>While attempting to make a bootable USB drive, I accidently formatted the hard drive with all my recorded work on it. Is it lost forever? Are there people who can recover data in such a case?<br><br>The drive does not mount, and Gparted says:<br>
<br>"Unable to detect file system! Possible reasons are:<br>-The file system is damaged<br>-The file system is unkown to GParted<br>-There is no file system available (unformatted)"<br><br>This was the drive I used to back up my main system drive; I didn't have a backup for my backup.<br>
<br>There were no completed projects, but a lot of work-in-progress. It feels like when somebody dies. Is there any hope?<br><br>--Paul in Seattle<br> <br>
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