Is there any software that will allow me to undelete a text file encoded in ANSI? I know one line of the TXT file (so search would be useful). The hard drive was formatted using a quick format so the partition table has been destroyed but the content has not been overwritten.
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Boot up a linux live CD, and assuming /dev/sda
is your formatted harddrive:
sudo cat /dev/sda | grep -C 100 -i "The one line of text you rememeber" > ~/recovered.txt
This will find the string of text, and grab 100 lines before and after it, and then dump it into a text file in your home directory on the live CD.