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Justin (brymer@arcadia.cs.rmit.edu.au) wrote:
> hoon kang (h-kang1@students.uiuc.edu) wrote:
> : Please help!
> : 
> : As a computer novice not knowing what I'm doing, I made one of the 
> : biggest mistakes while I was installing the Red Hat Linux.
> : While in the control panel's file manager I accidentally formated my 
> : windos95(msdos) partition with ex2fs.  My guess is, I did something like 
> : mke2fs /dev/hda1  where my dos was.  Now if anyone could help me undo 
> : what I did or salvage my stuff in dos,  I would be grateful.  
> 
> gone I'm afraid, hope you didn't lose anything of great value

Not necessarily, I have recovered a MSDOS filesystem using norton
utilities after mistakingly creating an EXT2 filesystem over the top of
it.   As long as you haven't overwritten the data on the drive you should
be able to recover a large portion of the data.

Norton's is able to reconstruct the FAT and partition table of a drive in
quite a high number of cases.

So before you give up, give nortons a shot, I think i used norton 7.0 for
dos on my sysem.




-- Cliff Wakefield

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