Recovery of Deleted / Formatted / Damaged Filesystems

Content Leader: Jess Garcia - Last Updated: March 10, 2007

Filesystem Recovery

Filesystems

• FAT
  • References
    • Advanced FAT Repair

• ext
  • References
    • Advanced Find EXT2 EXT3 Backup SuperBlock
      Note: You can use mke2fs -n to determine the location of the backup superblocks for a particular filesystem (as long as the mke2fs parameters that were passed when the filesystem was originally created are used again).

• NTFS
  • References
    • Advanced NTFS Boot and MFT Repair

• ReiserFS
  • References
    • ReiserFS File Undelete HOWTO

Tools

• testdisk: Tool which helps in the recovery of lost partitions and/or makes non-booting disks bootable again.
• gpart: Tool which tries to guess the primary partition table of a PC-type hard disk in case the primary partition table in sector 0 is damaged, incorrect or deleted.

Bad Block Recovery

Tools

• Salvation Data - Claims that can read the "bad blocks" of some drives with proprietary commands (not tested).

RAID Recovery

• See the RAID Section