If it is that important that you recover them you might try a professional service BEFORE you go tinkering around yourself. I have used Drive Savers ( http://www.drivesaversdatarecovery.com/ ) in the past and been very happy with them. Expensive if you want rush service, not too bad for normal service. Free to call and contact them anyway.
Andy [No relationship to Drive Savers at all, just a prior customer] On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 7:39 AM, Jamie Faris <[email protected]> wrote: > Have you tried Recuva? > > http://www.piriform.com/recuva > > I haven't had to use it (thankfully), but have been using CCleaner and > Defraggler from Piriform for a few years with great results. > > On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 10:48 PM, Jack Coats <[email protected]> wrote: > > ... > > > > My most valuable client (wife) has a problem (other than me). She has > > a disk that has LOTS of data on it, mainly pictures, many are not > > replaceable. > > > > We go to a the drive and can go to g:\My Documents\My Pictures\ > > and if we know the directory name, we can "cd" directly to a sub > > directory and files are there. But we don't know all the directory > > names there. > > > > When we do a 'dir' (ls for those that forgot their DOS commands :) it > > lists many directories, then it says there is a 'directory error', and > > no additional directories are listed. I am sure they are still there. > > > > What I want to do is to use some kind of disk editor to get in and > > edit the directory entry (it might be a group of entries from a > > spurious wright.). > > > > I think that there may have been a spurious write, but not sure. But > > for sure there is some 'minor' problem in the directory structure. > > > > I have tried several 'recover deleted files' programs, but not > > everything came back. I found some computer forensics software that > > should let me edit the drive, but it looks like it can't get sector > > level access since it is obfuscated behind a USB structure. > > > > I could be a big hero to my honey if I can get back even most of the > > 'lost' pictures. > > > > Let the brain trust suggestions flow! (Yes, backups. ... I have > > already flogged myself more than is healthy over that, now on to > > solving the problem at hand.) > > > > Back in CP/M days I could do this with several programs, but times > > have changed. ... Help is needed! > > > >><> ... Jack > > Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart... Colossians 3:23 > > "You don't manage people; you manage things. You lead people." — > > Admiral Grace Hopper, USN > > "If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the precipitate" > > - Henry J. Tillman > > "Anyone who has never made a mistake, has never tried anything new." - > > Albert Einstein > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "NLUG" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en
