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Jason Witcher wrote: > The subject line is fairly self-explanatory, but here's the situation. > I used a Windows machine to move a group of folders from an external > (FAT32) hard drive to an internal drive, which is now unusable (as I > dropped it and now it makes a horrible clicking noise rather than a > nice whirr...) . What I therefore want to do is recover the data that > was moved onto the now unusable drive from the external drive - I have > not used the external drive since it happened, so none of the data > would have been overwritten. > I've tried a few Windows programs, one of which found and recovered > the files but it turned out they were unplayable (the lost ones are > all AVIs), so what I'm wondering is, are there any Linux programs that > will recover data from FAT32 partitions? I've Googled and found loads > that will recover info from ext2/3/Reiser partitions but not Windows > partitions, and tried a Helix live CD - there's a couple of utilities > on there that look promising (Autopsy and pyFlag) but unless I'm > mistaken they both require an image of the drive to be taken first, > but it's a 500GB drive and I just don't have another drive large > enough (well, I *did*, but...). > Any ideas? It's no big deal if I don't get the files back, just very > annoying! > Jason Knoppix -- Regards: Kevin Lucas Post Master (Sub) Minions Shop & Tea Rooms Minions Liskeard Cornwall PL14 5LE www.minionsbandb.co.uk -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html