Re: [MiNT] Undelete

[Peter Slegg <p.slegg@scubadivers.co.uk>]

On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 08:02:31 , Petr Stehlik <pstehlik@sophics.cz> wrote:
> If you asked google you'd find out that there are FAT32 undelete
> programs for Windows but they don't seem to be open source so no chance
> of porting them to MiNT. Anyway, you can connect your harddrive to a
> Windows machine and if you're lucky and your partition table is in a
> format that the Windows can understand then you have a chance of
> undeleting the files.
>
> The other way is a manual work in the FAT tables but you don't want to
> do that (unless the partition was perfectly empty before you stored your
> scans there and you never deleted any file before writing new ones) -
> re-scanning of the source material would be simpler and faster, I think.
>
> Petr
>
I have found an app caled mundelete which claims to be able to undelete
from FAT32. I have managed to compile the source from the tar.gz
but it requires a classic unix style device name so I am not
sure if it us usable under Mint.

Regards,

Peter