Recovery from ext-4

[Sandy Harris]

On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 4:23 PM, Eero Volotinen <eero.volotinen at iki.fi> wrote:

>> I've run magicrescue against both the disk and the USB stick, and that has
>> got back some MS Office files. However, most of the files I need back are
>> Open Office formats, PDF or TeX and magicrescue has no built-in recipes
>> for those. Before I attempt to write my own, has anyone got some?
>>
>> Since the USB was formatted FAT32 on a Windows box, but the disk utility
>> on the system menu now says it has no partitions, I'm now trying gpart
>> against the USB to see what it says.
>
> try to use photorec against that usb stick? create copy of it first
> using dd_rescue ?

Photorec against the disk recovered everything I cared about. Thanks.
I did not know of that app.