how to recover deleted files?

Mike McCarty mike.mccarty at sbcglobal.net
Mon Oct 3 23:50:34 UTC 2005


akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 02, 2005 at 03:56:35PM +0100, Deepak Shrestha wrote:
> 
>>Thanks! :-)
>>
>>at least I knew something about recovery tool but I
>>couldn't use that. The recovery tools that comes with
>>are commercial and only contained demo version which
>>can only show that which files can be recoverd.
>>Anyway I got my files recovered in my friends windows
>>xp machine.

[snip]

> You used to be able to undelete files using debugfs and midnight
> commander. But un-deleting a extxfs file is much harder than normal
> Windows file systems. Are there really Windows tools to recover files
> from extxfs file systems? Out of ignorance I did not know you could
> run Windows on an ext2fs or ext3fs file system. Can you?

His files were on a FAT32 file system used on a Linux box.

Mike
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