Undeleting partitions

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DrTeeth
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Undeleting partitions

Post by DrTeeth »

Hi,

After a recent, ahem, mishap; I had cause to undelete my partitions.
The message that popped up mentioned ext2, reiser, and some MSoft
ones. Is this an exhaustive list or is ext3+4 included? Is there a
list of supported file systems for this operation available?
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Cheers

DrT
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TeraByte Support(PP)
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Re: Undeleting partitions

Post by TeraByte Support(PP) »

ext4 is included. It should be able to find it if the boot sector wasn't cleared.
DrTeeth
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Re: Undeleting partitions

Post by DrTeeth »

On Sat, 21 Jan 2012 18:20:48 PST, just as I was about to take a herb,
TeraByte Support(PP) disturbed my reverie and wrote:

>ext4 is included. It should be able to find it if the boot sector wasn't cleared.

Several Linux partitions were found, but instead of their names, they
had an arrow (made up of dashes and a '>'). The windows (NTFS)
partitions were recovered with their names intact.

I will recover the Linux partitions from my backups.
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Cheers

DrT
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Re: Undeleting partitions

Post by TeraByte Support »

because it doesn't know what the names you had were - you'd just rename them
in properties.

"DrTeeth" wrote in message news:1177@public.bootitbm...

On Sat, 21 Jan 2012 18:20:48 PST, just as I was about to take a herb,
TeraByte Support(PP) disturbed my reverie and wrote:

>ext4 is included. It should be able to find it if the boot sector wasn't
>cleared.

Several Linux partitions were found, but instead of their names, they
had an arrow (made up of dashes and a '>'). The windows (NTFS)
partitions were recovered with their names intact.

I will recover the Linux partitions from my backups.
--

Cheers

DrT
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DrTeeth
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Re: Undeleting partitions

Post by DrTeeth »

On Mon, 23 Jan 2012 08:49:48 PST, just as I was about to take a herb,
"TeraByte Support" disturbed my
reverie and wrote:

>because it doesn't know what the names you had were - you'd just rename them
>in properties.

But why was that the case when NTFS partitions did have their names
intact? The names/no names seems to be divided along file system-type
lines.
--

Cheers

DrT
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Re: Undeleting partitions

Post by TeraByte Support »

things are standard location/types for fat/fat32/ntfs.

"DrTeeth" wrote in message news:1190@public.bootitbm...

On Mon, 23 Jan 2012 08:49:48 PST, just as I was about to take a herb,
"TeraByte Support"

disturbed my
reverie and wrote:

>because it doesn't know what the names you had were - you'd just rename
>them
>in properties.

But why was that the case when NTFS partitions did have their names
intact? The names/no names seems to be divided along file system-type
lines.
--

Cheers

DrT
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jfm
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Re: Undeleting partitions

Post by jfm »

because it doesn't know what the names you had were - you'd just rename them
in properties.

"DrTeeth" wrote in message news:1177@public.bootitbm...

On Sat, 21 Jan 2012 18:20:48 PST, just as I was about to take a herb,
TeraByte Support(PP) disturbed my reverie and wrote:

>ext4 is included. It should be able to find it if the boot sector wasn't
>cleared.

Several Linux partitions were found, but instead of their names, they
had an arrow (made up of dashes and a '>'). The windows (NTFS)
partitions were recovered with their names intact.

I will recover the Linux partitions from my backups.
--

Cheers

DrT
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DrTeeth
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Re: Undeleting partitions

Post by DrTeeth »

On Fri, 24 Jan 2014 14:29:08 PST, just as I was about to take a herb,
"TeraByte Support" disturbed my
reverie and wrote:

>because it doesn't know what the names you had were - you'd just rename them
>in properties.

I don't know where I can across the tip...it was on these NGs IIRC. I
create a hidden folder with the name of the distro and that is easily
visible from the BIBM edit file window.
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Cheers,

DrT

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