Well thats an interesting way to lose data

[nstgc]

I've found a new way to lose data -- have an OS convert an existing physical partition into a logical partition.

After discovering that over 300 GB of anime disappeared I rebooted into a live copy of Ubuntu. I went to GParted to find the name of the partition in question. It was listed as being part of an extended partition. I did not set it up that way and a month ago when I did this (a ruetuine check) it was still its own partition. The data was there last week. I was using some of the files as test files for my new monitor.

I fsck'ed the parition, and there were no problems. Where did my shit go!?

[edit] I should mention I didn't do that intentionally.

[edit2] If you can suggest some file recovery software, please do so.

[Soryon]

i kinda laffed at this, but its really not a laughing matter.

I had basically the same thing happen to me a while back, luckily it was a computer that didnt have anything important on it, just some songs.

[vuzedome]

It's time to bring in some deep scanners to peek around.

[nstgc]

Yeah. PhtoRec seems as if it may work. It recovered some. We'll see.

I don't have enough free disk space to recover the data, but I ordered a 1.5 TB drive. It should be here By Wednesday.

If anyone has any good suggestions for file recovery software please share.

[Pentium100]

GetDataBack by Runtime Software. There are separate versions depending on if your drive was FAT or NTFS.

[vuzedome]

R-studio has been doing miracles for me, give it a try.

[Freedom Kira]

I made this thread a while back. Take a look. Some of the programs I used may help you.

[nstgc]

Well, I got a new HDD in so I'll recover my files tomorrow. I'm too busy today.

[sapsa]

Good Luck! Hope nothing strange happend this time

[x5ga]

This thing happened to me once, but with my ≈100GB of perfectly sorted and tagged music colection. R-Studio was the only software that got the data 99% back the way it was before.

[nstgc]

PhotoRec is a joke. It got about one sixth of the total amount lost (16.6%). I'm going to try something else.

[edit] R-Studio, which I have used before, won't read from an ext4 partition.

[x5ga]

[edit] R-Studio, which I have used before, won't read from an ext4 partition.

Versions >5.0 do support ext4 partitions.

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[nstgc]

Its probably too late now. I'll give it a try, but I doubt I'll get any more than before. Downloaded a shit down of crap this week end so chances are the data was over writen.

I'll give it a try any way.