recovering of deleted files

Hello,people!I have a little problem!
I use openSUSe v11.0.and one of my partitions are formated to fat32.and this partition include folder with my downloads.(I use GPRS-INTERNET,max 100 MB per night).size of folder was over 9Gb .But I accidentally deleted this folder yesterday.And I have no opportunity to recover this folder using just re downloading of files.how to recover files?
p.s. sorry for my English.I live in Ukraine and have not many practice with it

There’s a plethora of DOS tools and utilities (starting with the famous UNDELETE command) which will help you recover your files, just don’t go writing ANYTHING on the drive. Get a live rescue CD dedicated to system/file recovery and good luck. You’re lucky to have FAT32 – if you had ext3, you migh as well say bye-bye to your 9 GB…

On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 21:46 +0000, JosipBroz wrote:
> There’s a plethora of DOS tools and utilities (starting with the famous
> UNDELETE command) which will help you recover your files, just don’t go
> writing ANYTHING on the drive. Get a live rescue CD dedicated to
> system/file recovery and good luck. You’re lucky to have FAT32 – if you
> had ext3, you migh as well say bye-bye to your 9 GB…

Actually you might be surprised at how much can be recovered.

what is the nams of programs,that I can use as liveCD?
I googled common decideng of this problem.Peole mske windowsXP liveCD and include a recovering programms to it.manual at russian,but google translate help you
Ru.Board – WinPE èëè LiveCD ñ Windows ñâîèìè ðóêàìè

petru4o wrote:
> what is the nams of programs,that I can use as liveCD?
> I googled common decideng of this problem.Peole mske windowsXP liveCD
> and include a recovering programms to it.manual at russian,but google
> translate help you
> ‘Ru.Board – WinPE èëè LiveCD ñ Windows ñâîèìè ðóêàìè’
> (http://www.ru-board.com/new/article.php?sid=172)
>
>
You can true Knoppix STD though it was old last time I checked. There is
also Helix which might be able to help.

And what I can to do in knoopix live cd with my problem?

I just had the exact same situation happen yesterday. I couldn’t find any linux programs to undelete files from a fat drive. There are many free Windows programs that do this, and I ended up using “Undelete Plus” in an XP Virtualbox to get my files back. (“Recuva” also works well, but is also for Windows)

If anybody knows of any linux-based file recovery/undelete programs please let me know. I find it hard to believe that that there are so many tools to do this in Windows and zero to do it in linux.

I would suggest posting on one of the forums for distros specifically catered to this kind of problem - this is a candidate, although I have never used it, so can’t tell you whether it works. Good luck.

SystemRescueCd :: View topic - how to restore erased file

> I find it hard to believe that that there are so
> many tools to do this in Windows and zero to do it in linux.

simple explanation: Linux programs are written by Linux programmers
for the needs of Linux user’s…and conversley, Windows[tm] programs
are likewise made to fill a user base need …

the fact is that real Linux users don’t click buttons without
thinking/willy-nilly and thereby delete files they don’t intend to
delete…

so, there is no huge need for such recovery software…and, it
therefore that very few such programs exist…[and those that do are
NOT drop dead simple click click click to use…of course, i’ve never
needed to try one…and, when i do i’ll restore the file from my
current backup image…]

i guess the reason there are so many of those tools available for
Windows[tm] clickers is now obvious to you?


duo

Come on, linux users don’t do that…I’m glad linux programmers think that we’re just as stupid as Windu’s.
I do know linux users who have the Shift-delete option (bypass trash-bin) as a replacement for Delete. Same goes for Windu’s. And every once in a while i think i’d rather feed the hungry, than the backupless

For anyone who may be interested, I found a good recovery program by searching in another distro’s forum.

The program is “photorec” (part of the testdisk package) and it is part of the packman repo.

Photorec use in openSUSE - http://www.suseblog.com/linux-tool-resurrects-deleted-images

@petru4o – don’t be dismayed by this comment. I assure you that most of the real Linux users here are actually well-intentioned and have a sense of community.

How nice it must be to be perfect in one’s mind. Most of us never could achieve that, lucky for us…

Thanks for the link zmdmw52, I’d never seen this “suseblog” page before but it looks like there is a lot of good info. I’ve bookmarked it.

This is another article in more detail about using Photorec to recover deleted files -
Recovering Deleted Files Easily – LINUX For You Magazine