On 31 May 2013 17:47, "J Fernyhough" <<a href="mailto:j.fernyhough@gmail.com">j.fernyhough@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > > On 31 May 2013 16:14, Grant Phillips-Sewell > <<a href="mailto:dcglug@phillips-sewell.co.uk">dcglug@phillips-sewell.co.uk</a>> wrote: > > then there are tools out there > > [citation needed] > > > which can scan each > > block/sector of your drive to find the remnants of previous partition > > structures, optionally re-write your partition table back to what it found, > > and then there are tools to recover filesystems after this. It can be a > > long, drawn out process... or it can take 10 minutes, depending on the size > > of the drive, the amount of data and the amount of destruction. > > > > But seriously, what do you recommend? It's useful to know before these > things are needed. :) > > J > Testdisk and/or photorec. There are even dedicated live distros that specialise i'n disk recovery, as far as I remember. Neil.