F10 data recovery

lambcutlet · #1 21st June 2009, 11:29 PM

Hello
need some advice on recovering a laptop 40GB harddrive.
everything was OK. it had a F10 standard install. So it had a boot sector and the rest was contained in LVM.

Now i had been messing around trying to install a MYTHTV frontend on a USB 8GB stick.
Using MythDora 10.21 i followed the AutoInstall selection expecting an option for which drive to install too. No option appeared and when i had realised the formatting had completed on my 40GB drive the damaged had been done. I powered off prior to program installation.

I am now left with a hard drive partitioned for MythDora. (220MB bootsector, 8GB LVM programs and 30GB LVM storage)

I don't care about anything else on the laptop drive apart from my email (thunderbird)

Are there any programs out there i can use to get my email?

tashirosgt · #2 22nd June 2009, 12:00 AM

PhotoRec was suggested for data recovery in a letter to Linux Journal. http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec
I myself have never used it.

lambcutlet · #3 23rd June 2009, 10:42 PM

thanks for the advise

i performed PhotoRec and it has found loads of files and stored them in many directories. Much to many to manually go through.
in the mean time i found this command to try and find my email address contained within the files

Code:

grep -lir XX@XX.com * > list.txt

hopefully this will work and narrow the file list down

Has anyone successfully performed this task before?
and can give some advice.