[ale] recovering an ext3 drive

[x3 at ChangingLINKS.com (ChangingLINKS.com)]

Yes. But as I recall, you needed help finding *where* the undeleted files went 
(even as good as you are). The last easy recovering tool that I used in 
Windows was called "Recoverall" (I think). There were many other freeware 
programs to choose from. Before that, I used something that was called 
"undelete" which worked from the DOS prompt. 

NOTE: I said "easy" to use and "works well."

It is okay for Windows to do something better than Linux. Logically, if 
Windows was available before Linux - then there was a time that Windows was 
better at *everything.* Hopefully, Linux will continue to grow and there will 
be better software for undeleting data in the future.

This will happen when we first accept that there IS a weakness.

Drew



On Sunday 19 January 2003 14:49, Geoffrey wrote:
> ChangingLINKS.com wrote:
> > No, fundamentally data that is written to a hard drive (regardless of the
> > filesystem) is always recoverable right after it is written. EXT3 does
> > not magically destroy the data - it just doesn't make it easy (for you
> > and I) to get back yet. In my opinion data recovery is a drawback of
> > Linux. There is no *easy* to use tool for recovery *any* Linux format
> > (that works well) yet.
>
> Just recovered > 9000 files from an ext2 filesystem.
>
> So what tools are there to recover removed files from a Windows
> environment?

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Drew Brown
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