bsd lost partition recovery

[takCoder]

Thank you for your reply..

On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 2:31 PM, Erich Dollansky <
erichsfreebsdlist at alogt.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> >On Sun, 17 Feb 2013 12:56:54 +0330
> >takCoder <tak.official at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >> *here's the question:*
> >> how to restore lost data of a formatted bsd partition?!
> >>
> >restore it from a backup?
>

no, from the formatted hard drive.. if only i had a backup..


>
> >> *and here's what has happened to me:*
> >> i was trying to install windows xp sp2 on a HD on my system to move
> >> it to another hardware after that for some reasons, but i had my main
> >> HD attached to may system as well..
> >>
> >> all of a sudden i made the worst misktake ever and formatted my main
> >> HD's bsd partition instead!!!
>
> If you want to read the data from that partition it will depend very
> much on how far the Windows installation really went.
>
> i just deleted the partition and then found out what i just did, then i
stopped the installation process and start looking ways for recovery..

till now, somewhere in the web i saw that R-Studio supports ufs recovery
but it's a windows application.. i'm preparing a system for checking it
right now..

Best Regards,
t.a.k


On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 2:31 PM, Erich Dollansky <
erichsfreebsdlist at alogt.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Sun, 17 Feb 2013 12:56:54 +0330
> takCoder <tak.official at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > *here's the question:*
> > how to restore lost data of a formatted bsd partition?!
> >
> restore it from a backup?
>
> > *and here's what has happened to me:*
> > i was trying to install windows xp sp2 on a HD on my system to move
> > it to another hardware after that for some reasons, but i had my main
> > HD attached to may system as well..
> >
> > all of a sudden i made the worst misktake ever and formatted my main
> > HD's bsd partition instead!!!
>
> If you want to read the data from that partition it will depend very
> much on how far the Windows installation really went.
>
> Erich
>