GetDataBack saved my bacon once, too. On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 9:32 AM, Matthew Topper <[email protected]> wrote:
> Seconding Macrium Reflect. > > > > Also throwing out the idea of GetDataBack for NTFS from Runtime. Saved me > a few times when a drive wouldn’t mount. > > > > Matthew Topper > > > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *D R > *Sent:* Monday, November 3, 2014 9:30 AM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [NTSysADM] help for a hypocrite > > > > Bill, > > > > Oh, and when you need to do the bit image backup/clone, I would look at > Macrium Reflect to perform that task. Then get EASUS Data Recovery Wizard > 7.5 to try and recover that partition. > > > > There may be other apps that you could use, but I find that these two > really help because they are fast and up-to-date. But your mileage may vary. > > > > Hope all goes well. > > > > Daniel > > > > On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 8:41 AM, Bill Humphries <[email protected]> > wrote: > > looking for a suitable hard drive now. Thanks for the advice, Daniel. > > > > Bill > ------------------------------ > > *From:* [email protected] <[email protected]> > on behalf of D R <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Sunday, November 2, 2014 11:05 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [NTSysADM] help for a hypocrite > > > > Bill, > > > > The cloning of the drive would be a good safe measure. If possible, clone > with the exact same type of hard drive and do a bit image backup. > > > > Then, on that cloned drive, I would use the latest version of EASUS Drive > Partition Recovery. That would at least let you see data, info, etc., from > that partition since it 'reads' that partition regardless what the current > setting is. It sounds like the partition descriptors got hosed when it went > into hibernate mode and Windows, and Linux sees it as a RAW Drive ready to > be formatted. > > > > Else, if you had a disk hex editor you could just go and modify those hex > descriptors for that partition. It would be tricky, but could be done. You > would just need to know what those hex numbers are and replace them with > what the drive says for the current state of that partition. Once changed, > then try to boot up that cloned drive. It it comes up, great! Do a backup > and of that partition and the system state and then reformat another drive, > reinstall the OS, and then do a restore. Should be a days worth of work. > > > > If it doesn't, then use the EASUS Drive Partition Recovery to 'read' the > suspect partition. The utility will need to store those files somewhere, so > you had better have a large thumb drive or an external hard drive that > works on USB 3.0 to put those files. > > > > And FYI, if you do use that utility, when it does a 'read' of that > partition you don't have any way to tell it to skip certain files and > directories. It does an 'all or nothing' approach. But, once the file is > read and recovered, you can then tell the utility which files you want to > move to a partition. > > > > Let us know how it goes > > > > On Sun, Nov 2, 2014 at 10:38 PM, Bill Humphries <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Ok, I haven't been fully practicing what I preach and haven't backup up > a personal laptop in a while. It seems that my little girl was typing on > it this weekend and my wife saw her and closed the lid...which should have > made it hibernate. I go to open it tonight and it won't boot. I haven't > noticed any bad hard drive sounds coming from it beforehand. > > > > This is a win 7 thinkpad. I yanked the harddrive and tried to mount it to > another PC to look at data. In disk manager I could see the small system > drive partition and the lenovo partition...the windows partition showed as > RAW instead of readable. I then booted to ubuntu live CD and tried to see > the data. In DISKS it shows that partition as unknown and doesn't present > anything as available...but does show the other partitions as I would > expect them to show in linux. > > > > Any ideas what has happened or best course of action? Should I try > cloning the drive and working off of that? > > > > Thanks for any help/insight. > > > > Bill > > > > > > -- > > Daniel Rodriguez > [email protected] > > > > > > -- > > Daniel Rodriguez > [email protected] >
