-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Oh... I'd forgotten... allow me to recommend SpinRite.
It's somewhat expensive, but for me it did the trick. I hear it's very well rated: http://www.grc.com/spinrite.htm Georger Araujo wrote: > I'd say the chances of your friend recoverings his/her data are very slim. > The right thing to do in such a case is to keep the filesystem as untouched > as possible and then run some data recovery tool such as > http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/uk/welcome.htm or > http://www.sysresccd.org/Download. Try File Recovery, it saved me more than > once, and it's free. > Another option would be sending the disk to a data recovery company, but it > will be VERY costly. Regards, > > Georger > > ----- Mensagem original ---- > De: Georg Altmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Para: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Enviadas: Sexta-feira, 8 de Dezembro de 2006 10:45:45 > Assunto: [Bacula-users] Off-topic: FAT32 disaster recovery > > Hello, > > I know this is off topic, but I hope to reach some people on this list, who > might be able to help me with the daunting task I am facing. Please excuse > the impertinence to post it here. The whole story is a bit lengthy - just > ignore the post in case you're not interested. > > A friend of mine, who is an architectural student, contacted me because of > a problem with his external hard drive, containing a FAT32 partition which > he had attached to his PowerBook. Possibly because of a failure of the USB > electronics of the hard drive, the disk was disconnected from the system > without being properly unmounted. He better had used bacula to backup his > data, because apparently the file system was damaged without Mac OS X > noticing this. Instead he ignored the error and continued to write data to > the disk. Later he noticed, that he could not open certain PDF files > because they are corrupted in some way (at least Acrobat says that).. > > Now (to late) he realised his misery and now I have the pleasure to try to > restore his data. The first thing to do, is of course to create an image of > the whole partition, to prevent the destruction of further data. > Unfortunately nice people from Redmond can get in your way here. I attached > the FireWire disk to my desktop, booted Windows XP and in it's ingenuity, > it detected the file system on the disk was corrupted, and ran chkdsk over > it before I would have hit the "any key". chkdsk moved all lost clusters to > a directory FOUND.000 containing enumerated files FILE0000.CHK. > Additionally there are files with the names of directories which existed on > the fs. Using the UNIX file utility and some shell scripting, I was able to > sort these files into directories on an other disk, each containing one > file-type. It appears like PDF and Photoshop files are mostly okay, but for > example most PDF and TIFF files are corrupted. > > Now, I know that there is a plethora of file system recovery tools claiming > to be able to restore all files. Though, I would like to know, if there is > any chance to restore the original FAT32 file system structures after the > disastrous chkdsk run or if I have to live with the .chk files. My > knowledge of FAT32's internal structures is next to zero and so I am not > sure how to proceed. Enchantingly I couldn't find any info on what exactly > chkdsk is doing in the MS knowledge base. So I would appreciate if anyone > could give me some information on this and to know if I have any better > options to restore data, other than the .chk files. > > My personal judgment is, that files already got corrupted by Mac OS X > writing to the damaged filesystem and thereby overwriting blocks (clusters? > "chains"? whatever) it mistakenly deemed free, but in reality belonged to > already existing files. > > > Anyway, this teaches us once more, that you should > a) make regular backups (doh!) > b) not rely on external hard disks for this > c) not at all use crappy filesystems such as FAT32 > > > > Thank you for reading all this! > > Regards, > Georg > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________________ > Você quer respostas para suas perguntas? 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