Hi,

was the /var/log/messages opened with root permissions

i opened it using rescue mode.

Under rescue mode the /var/log/message is diffrent from original booting partition Check the /mnt/sysimage/var/log/message

Regards

Try easy recovery professional. If your new data hasnt overwritten your VB data it should recover it from the hard disk. I have recovered 100% data from a formatted hard disk.

Regards, Keith

On Wednesday 10 March 2004 18:31, Aditya Laghate wrote:

Hi folks,

Yesterday, I had to format my drive, so i took a back up of the data on a CD. After re-formating my drive and installing the OS, I found that, my CD had a bad TOC. I cannot read a single file. All the data is there, because, when i open a file using notepad or kate, kwrite, etc... i can see some data that is supposed to exist in some other file.

I got hold of a software badcopy, using the software i could recover most of my data. I havent been able to get my visual basic data back, which i need desperately.

Anybody, faced with such problems before? Can anybody guide me?

Regards

Aditya Laghate

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On Wednesday 10 March 2004 18:31, Aditya Laghate wrote:

Hi folks,

Yesterday, I had to format my drive, so i took a back up of the data on a CD. After re-formating my drive and installing the OS, I found that, my CD had a bad TOC. I cannot read a single file.

Try cdfs. //CDfs is a file system for Linux systems that `exports' all tracks and boot images on a CD as normal files. These files can then be mounted (e.g. for ISO and boot images), copied, played (audio tracks), etc. //

On Thursday 11 March 2004 13:51, Aditya Laghate wrote:

Hi,

I could not get what exacy you wanted to say, can you please explain the cdfs thing in breif.

I have a cd with a bad TOC. not a HDD with a bad TOC.

Well, never heard of a hdd with a TOC. As stated earlier cdfs allows you to export individual cd tracks as files and mount them on some directory. Get cdfs and compile. Also compile loopback device as module or in the kernel. modprobe loop; modprobe cdfs mount -t cdfs -o ro /dev/hdc /cdrom mount -t iso9660 -o loop /cdrom/sessions_1-1.iso /mnt/loop1 cp -R /mnt/loop1 /safeplace I recently had a cd with three sessions and could only read the last session. Using cdfs i could mount all three sessions and copy the relevant files from the earlier sessions to hd.

//CDfs is a file system for Linux systems that `exports' all tracks and boot images on a CD as normal files. These files can then be mounted (e.g. for ISO and boot images), copied, played (audio tracks), etc. //