February 26th, 2012, 20:10
February 27th, 2012, 4:19
March 26th, 2012, 19:35
March 26th, 2012, 22:02
March 26th, 2012, 23:08
fwors wrote:I was looking for a professional service, but they are rather expensive for my needs, so I'd like to try to recover the files myself.
fwors wrote:To be safe I'd assume it would be best to create an image of the disk
fwors wrote:and then try to restore the MBR.
fwors wrote:Which tools can you recommend for this purpose?
March 27th, 2012, 1:08
March 30th, 2012, 20:00
Vulcan wrote:@fwors,
That means you have to accept the potential consequences (as well as the potential benefits) of your DIY attempts. It is possible that due to lack of skill / experience / taking short-cuts / just bad luck / etc., you might make things worse, or even unrecoverable.
Vulcan wrote:That choice depends on your skills, experience, budget, expectations of what the tool(s) would so, available time, etc., none of which we know about you.
Vulcan wrote:For cloning, one well-known tool is GNU ddrescue running under Linux/Unix (which is what I use in my non-DR job for cloning marginal disks), but whether that is suitable for you depends on your Linux/Unix OS skills, and (in some cases) your experience with using it, in order to get the best possible result. Search the forum for discussions on cloning software for mentions of other software. Personally, I would only use non-Windows software for cloning flaky disks, but if you are uncomfortable with other OS, then that limits your choices.
March 31st, 2012, 16:02
fwors wrote:budget: I don't spending a little money if it significantly increases the chances of recovery. However, in general I prefer open source solutions.
fwors wrote:time: There's no hurry and I don't mind spending some time with this.
experience: I have recovered deleted files from USB devices, but haven't dealt with any serious data losses involving hardware or "low level errors" like corrupt file tables.
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I haven't use Linux in a while
fwors wrote:if ddrescue is the best (free) software available I am going to use it.
fwors wrote:Are there any distributions with pre-installed recovery tools available?
fwors wrote:Besides, is it possible to limit the image to the second partition? I don't need any files from partition C and reading 150 GB unnecessarily from a damaged disk doesn't too promising.
March 31st, 2012, 16:43
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