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by kazi
03 Jun 2013, 00:24
Forum: File recovery
Topic: I ran mistakenly "Sudo rm -rf *" in my home directory!
Replies: 0
Views: 2302

I ran mistakenly "Sudo rm -rf *" in my home directory!

Hi Dears,
I did something very crucial to my home directory by following command.

sudo rm -rf *
While in the terminal my current directory was /hom/something_else/sub_dir
I was to delete all the files in sub_dir but I ran the above command after hitting the "cd" which is my bad habit.
And it ...
by kazi
10 May 2012, 07:45
Forum: Filesystem repair
Topic: How to Mount external hard drive and Recover files from it?
Replies: 9
Views: 13453

Re: How to Mount external hard drive and Recover files from

TestDisk was complaining about your cluster size.
This value is included in your boot sector also.
That's why it's advisable to write your boot sector to correct it!
If you'd like to copy/backup your data first, you can copy your data using TestDisk.
If you list your data, at the bottom of the ...
by kazi
10 May 2012, 04:20
Forum: Filesystem repair
Topic: How to Mount external hard drive and Recover files from it?
Replies: 9
Views: 13453

Re: How to Mount external hard drive and Recover files from

Was it previously formatted as FAT32 or was it in NTS and you format it in FAT32 with usb creator ?

Try advanced > Boot > Repair BS, but don't write, only try listing after repair.

I did know nothing I've done but I did not format the hard drive into fat32 from ntfs. It seems like there was ...
by kazi
09 May 2012, 16:43
Forum: Filesystem repair
Topic: How to Mount external hard drive and Recover files from it?
Replies: 9
Views: 13453

Re: How to Mount external hard drive and Recover files from

Finally, I've collected some info from the "testdisk.log" file and here is the info.
If it is possible please help me.
Thanks
by kazi
08 May 2012, 21:02
Forum: Filesystem repair
Topic: How to Mount external hard drive and Recover files from it?
Replies: 9
Views: 13453

Re: How to Mount external hard drive and Recover files from

I used the analyse option twice. Once in quick mode others in deeper mode. It resulted "no partition available"
What does it mean? Is there no possibilities to get access to those data are being contained by the external hard drive?
by kazi
08 May 2012, 16:35
Forum: Filesystem repair
Topic: How to Mount external hard drive and Recover files from it?
Replies: 9
Views: 13453

How to Mount external hard drive and Recover files from it?

Today, I've downloaded new linuxmint 12 iso and have tried to make a live usb stick to install it to my laptop. I was working with my 500 gb usb external hard drive (which includes aprox. 400 gb data). I connected a 4 gb usb stick to make the bootable usb stick.

Then opened up terminal and typed ...