On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 1:21 AM, Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: > On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 11:41:09 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > >> Turns out none of the backup or Myth files were savable in any >> practical manner of speaking. Myth could play them, or at least start >> playing them - I don't know if it could get to the end of any of them, >> but if I tried to copy them off to another drive the machine just >> started hanging with lots of dmesg drive errors. None of the previous >> windows backups were savable. I've taken new windows backups starting >> last night. > > Did you try photorec as previously suggested? When a drive starts > behaving like this, retrieving the data should be the first thing you > try. Repairing the filesystem should be the last because you run the risk > of causing further damage. Photorec can retrieve files that are > inaccessible through the filesystem. > > > -- > Neil Bothwick
I haven't tried it yet. I don't like installing extra softwrae on the Myth backend so I disconnected the drive, used this old 1394 drive as a replacement and now have the old drive back here in my office. I figure I'll install Photorec et all next weekend on my AMD64 box and see what it can find. Cheers, Mark
