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by Mistaker
18 Oct 2013, 15:10
Forum: Filesystem repair
Topic: Accidentally formatted ETX3 disk to FAT32
Replies: 3
Views: 3629

Re: Accidentally formatted ETX3 disk to FAT32

I really, really, don't understand how to use TestDisk, I'm sorry. I just don't get it. To practice recovering my files I created an SD card with an EXT3 file system and two test files to recover. After that I "accidentally" formatted it to fat32.

When I run TestDisk on it and do a quick search and ...
by Mistaker
14 Oct 2013, 12:30
Forum: Filesystem repair
Topic: Accidentally formatted ETX3 disk to FAT32
Replies: 3
Views: 3629

Re: Accidentally formatted ETX3 disk to FAT32

Did you run TestDisk / Quick and Deeper Search?
Would it be possible to copy and paste the content of your testdisk.log into youir next post?

Fiona
Not yet. I did not dare to connect the 1 TB external drive to my computer anymore before I know what to do. I heard somewhere that accessing (or ...
by Mistaker
13 Oct 2013, 19:14
Forum: Filesystem repair
Topic: Accidentally formatted ETX3 disk to FAT32
Replies: 3
Views: 3629

Accidentally formatted ETX3 disk to FAT32

Hope I'm posting this in the right forum.

I did the dumbest thing on Earth (or in the Universe for that matter). I accidentally formatted my 1 TB external EXT3 backup disk instead of my USB thumbstick to FAT32. I'm on Linux and the command I used is:

mkfs.vfat /dev/sdc1 -n "Mistaker 2GB"


It ...