Never a Doh! moment.

[Jonathan Duncan]

On 16 Dec 2007, at 15:19, Steve wrote:

> It was bound to happen and it finally did, while attempting reformat
> an external drive I entered a typo and wiped my Vista partition.
> The command I used was
> sudo mkfs.vfat /dev/sda1
>
> Should have been
> sudo mkfs.vfat /dev/sdb1
>
> So ummm, anyone have any ideas on if data recovery would be possible
> here, or should I just re-install?
> Thanks in advance!
>

Vista is best wiped anyway.  =)  However, for data recovery I have  
used this program several times with great success.  So much so that I  
donated to the guy.

Jonathan