[Discuss] FAT data recovery through Linux?

[Adam Parkin]

And of course I'll be the first to say this: remember this experience 
the next time you have one of those "I'll back up my drive later" moments.

I went through this awhile back where I lost an entire drives contents 
including all my wife's photos.  I ended up taking the drive to a data 
recovery service and paid (IIRC) about $300 to get my data back. 
Would've been much cheaper (even accounting for time) to just burn a 
handful of DVD-R's.
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Daniel M German wrote:
> 
> I wrote a utility that recovers images from the raw device file
> (search for recoverphotos in google). It might offer an starting
> point.
> 
> What I recommend you do is to get a disk or the same size as the one
> you are trying to recover, then plug both disks to the same machine,
> and do a dd.
> 
> Then work with the copy. That way you always have the original.
> 
> Many, many years ago I used to update disks partition tables by
> hand. You need to understand how they work, and what the bytes
> mean. If you access the device as a file you can read and write the
> proper sectors.
> 
> it is like surgery: one small mistake can be fatal, but you can
> save the patient.
> 
> dmg
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> Hello all,
>>
>> 	I have a FAT32 partition that does not mount on any system I
>> have (yes, even in Linux) and it has data that I would really like to
>> access. I found a windows application that will recover the data, but
>> I would much rather boot into my Linux install and do the work there.
>> 	I have tried my GooFu, but it must be weak as I am unable to
>> find anything about using Linux to recover data.
>> 	I know how to use dd, but my understanding is that it makes an
>> exact copy and this won't help me.
>>
>> 	Does anyone have any leads they can offer?
>>
>> Thanks in advance!
>>
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