Re: Hard disk data recovery.
- From: Grant <bugsplatter@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2006 11:24:58 +1100
On 7 Feb 2006 16:12:57 -0800, b173@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
I have a problem. I was transferring files from a WinXP computer to a
hard drive that is installed on a Windows 2000 machine. When I came
back several hours later to monitor progress the operation had been
interupted. On the XP machine there was a message saying that the
destination no longer existed and lo and behold it wasn't lying.
You give no technical details, just what did you do?
The Windows 2000 machine says that the drive is there, but it isn't
formatted. Now there's a lot of important stuff on that drive that
needs to be salvaged. I've tried rolling back the registry etc... blah.
You're screwed? Why? You did not immediately remove the drive from
Win2k access. Win2k silently does things to visible hard drives, not
the best way to attempt data recovery (or the original transfer).
So now I want a real solution.To what? Just start over and do it properly.
the disk but it doesn't know what filesystem type it is. I think it
might be FAT32 but it could be NTFS.
Being so vague, how can you expect any data transfer to not also
be vague --> inaccurate, non-trustworthy, a total waste of time.
Any suggestions? I really want to recover this data, it would be great
if linux could be my hero :)
GNU/Linux is not the issue, sloppy technique brings sloppy results.
Boot some linux rescue CD, and tell us what is output from
# fdisk -l
Then detail the source and target partitions that you are copying.
Mount any partition you want to recover as read-only (man mount),
linux is able to read NTFS and FAT32 without a problem. You need
spare partition space writable by linux to store an image of the
partition needing recovery. From then on you work with the image
file.
Grant.
--
.... The computer scientist, who had listened to all of this said,
"Yes, but where do you think the chaos came from?"
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