[OT] How to retrieve files from partly formatted HD?
The question is not related to this list, because it concerns a win98 (or NTFS) formatted HD. Never the less I post the question here as I hope to get to learn if it is possible to retrieve the "lost" data with our superb OS :)) My neighbour though to be able to quickly install MS XP next to his MS windows 98. However, the XP installation started to format his whole disk instead of a partition. After 2% in the format process he stopped the installer. I checked with "dd if=/dev/hda ..." and it looks like his data is still here. With other words the table of contents has been removed by the format tool (according Norton Utilities the disk is not formatted and contains no data ;) Is there a some way a retrieve files from that HD? I guess one needs to know how the underlying filesystem format and then it is possible to do. Is there a tool that can do this. Just curious if linux can rescue a MS windows HD... -- Richard Bos For those without home the journey is endless
What I am familiar with is a windows program - Norton Tools (or whatever it is now called). It used to have a utility which could read damaged disks and retrieve files. There are others although I do not know what they are. A search on Google with 'disk recovery tools' came up with several entries. The first one was: http://www.ics-iq.com/products_cat_en.cfm - looks nice, but is expensive ($249 US). Second entry in Google was: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/recovery/!INDEX.html These are linux based and may meet your needs, you should read the SRM entries to see what each utility does. Third entry in Google: http://www.sevenlocks.com/SWDriveRecovery.htm Appears to be several windows based programs which may meet your needs. Hope this gives you a start. I enjoy looking into things such as this, but do not think the list wants me to give a review of each entry from the Google search result : ). Jim 12/30/01 09:34:15 AM, Richard Bos <allabos@freeler.nl> wrote:
The question is not related to this list, because it concerns a win98 (or NTFS) formatted HD. Never the less I post the question here as I hope to get to learn if it is possible to retrieve the "lost" data with our superb OS :))
My neighbour though to be able to quickly install MS XP next to his MS windows 98. However, the XP installation started to format his whole disk instead of a partition. After 2% in the format process he stopped the installer. I checked with "dd if=/dev/hda ..." and it looks like his data is still here. With other words the table of contents has been removed by the format tool (according Norton Utilities the disk is not formatted and contains no data ;)
Is there a some way a retrieve files from that HD? I guess one needs to know how the underlying filesystem format and then it is possible to do. Is there a tool that can do this.
Just curious if linux can rescue a MS windows HD...
-- Richard Bos For those without home the journey is endless
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Richard Bos schrieb:
The question is not related to this list, because it concerns a win98 (or NTFS) formatted HD. Never the less I post the question here as I hope to get to learn if it is possible to retrieve the "lost" data with our superb OS :))
My neighbour though to be able to quickly install MS XP next to his MS windows 98. However, the XP installation started to format his whole disk instead of a partition. After 2% in the format process he stopped the installer. I checked with "dd if=/dev/hda ..." and it looks like his data is still here. With other words the table of contents has been removed by the format tool (according Norton Utilities the disk is not formatted and contains no data ;)
Is there a some way a retrieve files from that HD? I guess one needs to know how the underlying filesystem format and then it is possible to do. Is there a tool that can do this.
Just curious if linux can rescue a MS windows HD...
There are some tools that enable you to work on FAT filesystems, but I guess nothing apropiate. (I deltreed a Win98 directory. Typical Linux error, since our /home ist outside the "OS" directory) I learned, that I could undelete files, but no dirs. In the end I tried "Tiramisu" (or spelled similar by I think ontrack) I think that tool can help you in that situation. There are demos avaialbe that enable you to undelete 5 files. The full version is *expensive*. Juergen -- =========================================== __ _ Juergen Braukmann juergen.braukmann@gmx.de| -o)/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ Tel: 0201-743648 dk4jb@db0qs.#nrw.deu.eu | /\\ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / ===========================================_\_v __/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\
Did you try a very simple (and free) operation: rebuild your MBR, by typing, under DOS, and from a diskette: fdisk /mbr? If it's only your master boot record that's defective, it'll work! -- Yves Baudrier Linux registered user # 182046
On Tuesday 01 January 2002 14:00, Yves Baudrier wrote:
Did you try a very simple (and free) operation: rebuild your MBR, by typing, under DOS, and from a diskette: fdisk /mbr? If it's only your master boot record that's defective, it'll work!
WAIT!!!! doing fdisk/mbr doesn't restore the original MBR but making a *new* MBR. and MBR doesn't have nothing to do with what the guys wanted.
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