Recovery of accidentally deleted partition

[ebbo]

Accidentally deleted the partition on my external USB back up drive last week which caused a fair old panic!

I found this bit of software ‘Active@ partition recovery’ Once installed I did a ‘quick search’ which found the partition and all the files nearly instantly then one click on ‘recover’ and it was fixed, just like it had never happened, simple and brilliant!

 

[Snoopy]

Software like this can only recover non-journeled file systems (fat32 mainly) and it's becoming harder since everything these days on win, *nix, apple is journeled.

I once deleted an XFS partition on Linux and lost 6 month of work. I recovered some programming text from scanning sector by sector and it was a nightmare. Since then I've learned the value of RAID.

 

[Fanum]

I once deleted an XFS partition on Linux and lost 6 month of work. I recovered some programming text from scanning sector by sector and it was a nightmare. Since then I've learned the value of RAID.

If, over 6 months, you didn't think to burn a bunch of DVD's or grab an increasingly cheap external HD to back stuff up on, then you deserved to lose it

 

[Deleted account 220427002]

If, over 6 months, you didn't think to burn a bunch of DVD's or grab an increasingly cheap external HD to back stuff up on, then you deserved to lose it

good point.... not backing something up seems right stupid

 

[Snoopy]

It was a complicated ****-up (basically the daily backups were lost at the same time).

 

[ianf]

Don't rely on RAID to catch anything other than a bad drive. Host controller failure, OS failure, power failure, user error will happily trash N copies of data at the blink of an eye.

 

[ILMV]

After you have been burnt once, there should be no excuse not to backup your files. My previous job was listening to the usual story of people losing their data and them blaming it on the next sucker, and it never scrubbed with me.

For those who are interested, backing up doesn't have to be a chore, check out SyncToy 2.0 from Microsoft, of which intelligently backs up files from one location to another, unlike most Microsoft tools, it's free and good :O