help:data loss....

[darkcoder]

hello

 I acted very stupidly, and lost a partition full of Amiga stuff.

I had a 2G SCSI HD from a friend of mine. It had a single FFS partition, filling all the space, containing 1.4 G of data.
I connected to my A4000T, and all was fine. I wanted to backup it on CDs, but the buring software complained about something wrong in the config of devices (the CDRW is on the same SCSI bus as the new HD). I launched HDInstTool, and it recognized the new HD as "modified". This is normal, in my experience, whenever a new HD is connected to the system. I thought that "saving" it could solve the buring software problem, and I thought that it was a safe operation since I had not changed anything in the partition nor in the other setting.
But I was wrong. The partition is disappeared.
HDInstTool, see the HD as empty.
With HDToolBox, instead, if I try to enter the partitioning window, I get a system crash.
I am almost sure that there is nothing to do to recover data, but who knows...maybe  I am wrong again.

Notice that I didn't change partition...what if I re-create the partition?

regards
Luca

[darkcoder]

Thomas wrote:

You must not use HDInstTool if you used HDToolbox before and vice versa.

I knew but thought it would be safe if not changing partitions... :-(

If you have a full version of RDB-Salv, now it is time to use it.

Otherwise you can use RDBRecov which does the same but is not as comfortable.

RDBRecov needs a partitioning tool to recover your partitions. You should use HDToolbox for that as HDInstTool does not let you change the drive's geometry.

You can use KillRDB in order to wipe the old partition table so that HDToolbox does no longer crash.

Because you only had one partition, you should first give this a try: use KillRDB, run HDToolbox as usual and create one big partition which covers the entire space. If this is how the HDD was partitioned initially, then it will bring your data back without running any recovery tool.

thanks for the suggestion. The partition was FFS, but I don't remember whether it was international or not. Does it matter?
If your suggestion does not work, can I then try with RecoverRDB ? (which, BTW, is made by you, isn't it)? :-)

regards
Luca