GetDataBack saved my bacon reading a RAW volume a time or two... On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 9:04 AM, Melvin Backus <[email protected]> wrote:
> While I agree with the format portion, I’m curious as to what your > choice/recommendation would have been for tools. > > > > -- > There are 10 kinds of people in the world... > those who understand binary and those who don't. > > > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Gavin Wilby > *Sent:* Wednesday, November 19, 2014 4:26 AM > *To:* '[email protected]' > *Subject:* [NTSysADM] RE: partition or data recovery? > > > > Formatting it was a mistake in my view. > > > > I would have used a recovery tool that could pull the data off the disk > regardless of the partition structure. > > > > *Gavin Wilby* > > *IT Support Engineer* > > > > *From:* [email protected] [ > mailto:[email protected] <[email protected]>] *On > Behalf Of *Christopher Bodnar > *Sent:* 18 November 2014 19:31 > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* [NTSysADM] partition or data recovery? > > > > It’s been quite a while and I’ve not done a lot of this type of thing. So > help would be appreciated: > > > > My dad’s hard drive died (4 year old HP desktop). So I took out the drive > and slaved it to one of my machines at home. It sees (2) partitions one of > which is the recovery partition and it sees fine as NTFS (no data). And the > other it saw as RAW, and that’s the one that the OS and data were on. I > downloaded EaseUS Partition Master and it saw the partition as NTFS and > showed the correct amount of used space (on the right track). Had it do a > scan/fix but no luck still not able to access anything win Windows. So I > formatted it, so windows could see it. Then I used the EaseUS data recovery > tool. That found the partitions and seemed to see all the directory > structures and the files(more good news). It ran over night and looked like > it found everything but when I restored a few test files, they were > corrupt. I’m hoping that maybe a better took (GParted ?) might help? > > > > Thoughts? > > > > Thanks > > > > > > > > *Christopher Bodnar* > Enterprise Architect I, Corporate Office of Technology:Enterprise > Architecture and Engineering Services > > Tel 610-807-6459 > 3900 Burgess Place, Bethlehem, PA 18017 > [email protected] > > > > * The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America* > > * www.guardianlife.com <http://www.guardianlife.com/>* > > > > > ------------------------------ > > ----------------------------------------- This message, and any > attachments to it, may contain information that is privileged, > confidential, and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the > reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are notified that > any use, dissemination, distribution, copying, or communication of this > message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, > please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete the > message and any attachments. Thank you. > > SMP Partners Limited, SMP Trustees Limited and SMP Fund Services Limited > are licensed by the Isle of Man Financial Supervision Commission. SMP > Accounting & Tax Limited is a member of the ICAEW Practice Assurance Scheme. > > SMP Partners Limited registered in the Isle of Man, Company Registration > No: 000908V > Directors: M.W. Denton, M.J. Derbyshire, P.N. Eckersley, S.E McGowan, O. > Peck, J.J. Scott, S.J. Turner > > SMP Trustees Limited registered in the Isle of Man, Company Registration > No: 068396C > Directors: A.C. Baggesen, M.W. Denton, O. Peck, J.J. Scott, J. Watterson, > J. Cubbon > > SMP Fund Services Limited registered in the Isle of Man, Company > Registration No: 120288C > Directors: V. Campbell, M.W. Denton, P.N. Eckersley, D.A. Manser, S.E > McGowan, O. Peck, J.J. Scott, R.K. Corkill > > SMP Accounting & Tax Limited registered in the Isle of Man, Company > Registration No: 001316V > Directors: I.F. Begley, A.J. Dowling, P. Duchars, P.N. Eckersley, J.J. > Scott, S.J. Turner > > SMP Capital Markets Limited registered in the Isle of Man, Company > Registration No: 002438V > Directors: M.W. Denton, M.J. Derbyshire, D.F Hudson, S.E McGowan, O. Peck, > J.J. Scott. > > SMP Partners Limited, SMP Trustees Limited, SMP Fund Services Limited, SMP > Accounting & Tax Limited and SMP Capital Markets Limited are members of the > SMP Partners Group of Companies. > > > > This email is confidential and is subject to disclaimers. Details can be > found at: http://www.smppartners.com/disclaimer.html > ______________________________________________________________________ > This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud service. > For more information please visit http://www.symanteccloud.com > ______________________________________________________________________ >
