[SOLVED] Accidentally deleted two directories on a mounted external...

Is there any way to restore them? I had an external hard drive mounted at /media/extdrv/. On it, I had multiple directories, including:
/media/extdrv/downloads
/media/extdrv/movies
/media/extdrv/music
/media/extdrv/mukti
/media/extdrv/paperthin
/media/extdrv/anime
I was copying one folder to another using this command:
sudo sudo cp -R downloads/\[LIME\]\ His\ And\ Her\ Circumstances/ anime/Kare\ Kano
The "Kare Kano" folder did not exist, which may have caused the problem? Now, when I list the files/directories under /media/extdrv/, I get nothing:
[mukti@headcrab01 media]$ cd extdrv/
[mukti@headcrab01 extdrv]$ ls
[mukti@headcrab01 extdrv]$
I've heard of many different tools to fix this, but I have never used any of them (ddrescue, extundelete, etc). I didn't realize that that command would cause the deletion of all directories under /media/extdrv, but I suppose I was wrong? Is there anything else I should check before attempting to use one of these recovery tools? Is there a specific tool that might be more suited for my specific issue?
The external drive is formatted ext4:
/dev/sda /media/extdrv ext4 defaults,nofail 0 0
There was well over 300GB of data on the drive, so any help is appreciated!
Last edited by mukti (2013-09-22 18:44:26)

It actually looks like I not only entered sudo twice, I ran the command twice (the first time only using sudo once. From my history:
486 sudo cp -R downloads/\[LIME\]\ His\ And\ Her\ Circumstances/ anime/Kare\ Kano
487 sudo sudo cp -R downloads/\[LIME\]\ His\ And\ Her\ Circumstances/ anime/Kare\ Kano
Also, upon further investigation, this was another issue. I checked, and /dev/sda was not mounted, and sda was not listed under /dev. I ran over and found that the external hard drive was powered off (the system/ext hdd are not in the same room/on the same floor as I am). I was able to power it back up, but I'm not sure what would have caused this.
So I guess I posted this a bit too soon, and should have done some more investigation; however, I am curious as to why the drive would lose power. All other devices on the circuit were still powered on and running. Could the commands I issued have caused this?
This can be marked as solved, since my "problem" is no longer. Thanks for the help.
EDIT:
I should also note, this 'event' has made me realize that I could not afford to lose some of the data on this drive. As a result, I'm going out to buy another as a backup.
Last edited by mukti (2013-09-22 18:38:59)

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