On Sunday 02 November 2003 21:20, Redeeman wrote:
> something happend, and i lost all files in a dir, i think i know what
> happend:
> i had made a link to the directory in a dir, so that i could share it on
> ftp, but when i removed the link, the dirs content got deleted too, its
> around 12gb og zip archives, and windows executables.
> i have NOT wrote to the disk since, in hope it can get recovered, i had
> a situation before:
>
> i had deleted some files in windows though, and i tried ontracks tool,
> it found files, but with the name b0rked, but runtimes software found
> with the correct name, this time i tried ontracks and the name was
> borked again, but runtimes didnt find anything, not even the files on
> the dir beyond, so i guess runtimes tool is capable of doing it, but
> maybe some stuff is needed in order to do it.
>
> some of you know how i might be able to recover? maybe its best with a
> linux tool? the filesystem is fat32
Your best bet would be to not touch it at all. There's a few tools on linux
that'll allow you to edit at the block level. Read up on them and use them to
look at the filesystem. At the same time search around for information on the
structure of the fat32 filesystem. Learn it while looking at a live
filesystem at the block level and then when you're confident that you know
what you are doing, you can attempt restoration. If it doesn't work, then you
know you can change it back and start over.
Personally, I don't know much about the FAT(32) file-system. The only
filesystem I was ever 100% familiar with was BAM (used on the C-64!) but what
I do know of FAT16 is that files are marked as deleted by replacing the first
character of the filename in the directory table and then marking the
occupying blocks as free in the allocation table. I don't know what the
implications are for the long-file-names aspect. Once the directory entries
are restored, doing a regular Windows scandisk should pick up that the
occupying blocks are marked as unallocated and mark them as allocated in the
allocation table.
Good Luck (with a capital L!)
Jason
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