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Data recovery and disk repair questions and discussions related to old-fashioned SATA, SAS, SCSI, IDE, MFM hard drives - any type of storage device that has moving parts
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April 24th, 2004, 2:04

Hi everyone!

I have a experience i would like to share / discuss with you.

Today i had a seagate 40gb to recover data in my office. It was a one partition disk. It had a significant number of bad sectors (+-500) so i clone it with media tools. I noticed that sectors 4339 and 4349 was two of the bad sectors (and if you do the match, right in the middle of the 1st copy of fat).

After that i tried 2 more software programs (ghost and pci clone max) and none of them was capable of copying these
sectors, so (in the good hdd that received the clone) i calculated the exact sector from the 2nd copy of the fat and pasted in to the damaged one - saved all my client's data.

After all the data copying process, for no reason i tried hdd regenerator on the bad hdd. Like magic, it restored the two bad sectors in the 1st fat, and what surprised me:

WITH EXACTLY THE CORRECT INFORMATION THAT WAS ON IT BEFORE GONE BAD
(as i double checked with the sectors from the 2nd fat).

What whas that? Good luck? I will try again with other drives that have bad in fat so that i can check if the restored information is again the same as the original...

P.S. If someone become interested with this software, the author also have Doc Regenerator, witch recovered me a 27 page .DOC file from a formated drive that was very fragmented and no other software file recover can (easyrecover, getdataback, docrepair & others)

The author of both softwares is Dimitry Primochenco
(the site i will not post here to not sound like propaganda)

Regards to you all,

-=pc3krules=-

April 24th, 2004, 9:25

The Raw recovery option on easy recovery can recover corrupted files but it looses all filenames. Does the doc regenerator keep file names?

I've used Hdd regenerator, its really slow but does seem to work.

April 24th, 2004, 10:31

Hi Mikestor!

Yes, the raw file recovery of easyrecovery can recover such files, but it only recover files that are defragmented (example: start sector: 3050002 - end sector: 3050590) With Doc regenerator all of the files open correctly (no invalid recovers), most files mantain layout and graphics, and - what amazes me the most - it can recover files spread through the disk (very fragmented indeed) as such a fragment in sectors 300547-300954 (disk begin) and another in 20000001-20000754) (disk end)

As for the names, it renames them with numerals, but as all the files are opening, renaming should just be a question of time and patience.

Regards,

-=pc3krules=-

April 24th, 2004, 20:12

I noticed that sectors 4339 and 4349 was two of the bad sectors (and if you do the match, right in the middle of the 1st copy of fat).



are you talking about boot or partition?

April 25th, 2004, 21:29

I am talking about a 40gb hard disk with one 40gb fat32 partition, so the fat start at lba 95 and lba 4339 and 4349 are just in the middle of the 1st fat table.

-=pc3krules=-

April 28th, 2004, 9:54

Mikestor wrote:The Raw recovery option on easy recovery can recover corrupted files but it looses all filenames. Does the doc regenerator keep file names?

I've used Hdd regenerator, its really slow but does seem to work.

HDD Regenerator? very stupid and slow tool ;) If you need such "repair" ;), you can use mhdd with erase wait - result the same.

April 28th, 2004, 23:14

Hi _vi_

I think you know me better than you do as i recently bought something from you ... :D

About mhdd and erase wait function, does it restore the sector data as hdd regenerator did in my case?

-=pchddrules=-

:cool:
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