I accidentally FAT formatted a NTFS partition, and now it shows up as an empty FAT-partition. I'm thinking much should be recoverable, since AFAIK NTFS puts much of the important stuff towards the middle of the partition, while FAT's file table is at the beginning.
Anyway, there are plenty of information here about how to recover files from a partially overwritten NTFS-system (eg. careless use of dd), so that'll be the second thing I do... However, first I have to turn the partition back into a NTFS-partition. So how do I do that?
Trying to format the drive, would destroy the NTFS file table... Can I perhaps raw-edit the partition and put the correct magic-numbers for NTFS at the beginning?