Please help: Flashexpander wiped my hard drive

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    hello - please can someone help...I mistakenly chose to install flashexpander on my hard drive where all my recordings are but in the process it has wiped all my recordings. Does anyone know how to recover the recordings? Has it simply deleted the partition or erased the drive completely?


    Ps: Sorry if this is in the wrong section mods

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    I bet, all is gone now...


    Try to find some linux tool (on a PC) that scans the HDD sector by sector to see if the formatting was not with erasing / emptying the content... but I would doubt you find something left.


    How was it formatted before ? FAT ? FAT32 ? ExtX?


    Emo

    thanks for your reply - after a lot of searching I thankfully found all the recordings under /usr/media so the flashexpander changed the fstab file !


    Question I now have is can I actually run flashexpander concurrently with my hdd and use the same hdd for my recordings without interfering with my recordings?

    You could, but will have to move all files from the USB Stick into your hdd, and be sure that the flashexpander files location are seen as same as before (you can give the same end point /media/hdd to the hdd and to the usb).


    Emo

    Thanks Emo. I have a slight dilemma in that both my external USB sockets are used by an external HDD and a wifi dongle - I don't have an internal HDD or a USB stick. How do I therefore use my external HDD with flashexpander whilst retaining all my recordings in the fstab file? I think this is how the problem first arose.

    Ok - just found out looking at mount manager:


    Device: /dev/sda1

    Mount: /media/hdd

    Size: 1.82TB


    And for some reason (I guess previous flashexpander installation), the following:


    Device: /dev/sda2

    Mount: None

    Size: 1023MB

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