Hi.

A few days ago I installed Ubuntu 10.04 on a friend's laptop, I didn't realise that my 320GB external hard disk was plugged and disaster happened: I formatted the device from FAT32 to Ext4 to get /home on it! (I know I'm stupid!)

Now I'm trying to use foremost the way is explained in some posts of this site and in https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DataRecovery#Foremost

I downloaded Ubuntu Rescue Remix version 10.04 and started Live CD in my desktop. I realised that foremost is included in it because when I tried to install it I got a "0 packages to be installed" message. Anyway I did "dpkg -l | grep fore" to get sure of this.

Then I identified the external hard disk (/media/usb0) and mounted the desktop's hard disk (/dev/sda1):

sudo mount /dev/sda1 /recovery

Then I created a directory in which I would like the data to be recovered (if possible):

sudo mkdir /recovery/foremost

Now I'm using foremost this way:

sudo foremost -w -i /media/usb0 -o /recovery/foremost

The screen says:

Processing: stdin
| <--------------------- (pipe symbol)

and nothing seems to happen... I'm doing it the correct way? Should I wait for HOURS or DAYS even the screen says nothing?

Thanks.