Re: hints for scanning msdosfs patters?

2006-07-07 Thread vladas
Seems like a small tax on people who don't keep decent backups. Yeah, thats thats me. Thank you all so much for the links. vladas

Re: hints for scanning msdosfs patters?

2006-07-07 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 08:56:55PM +0900, vladas wrote: Hi all. I have fd up the first 10Mb of the 3Gb fat disk (not partition, the whole 3Gb disk) full of windoze shit. Then, due to time limits, made some of sort of backup of the mess with dd and put Puffy into that disk (dedicated

Re: hints for scanning msdosfs patters?

2006-07-07 Thread vladas
On 07/07/06, Joachim Schipper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 08:56:55PM +0900, vladas wrote: Hi all. I have fd up the first 10Mb of the 3Gb fat disk (not partition, the whole 3Gb disk) full of windoze shit. Then, due to time limits, made some of sort of backup of the

Re: hints for scanning msdosfs patters?

2006-07-07 Thread Giancarlo Razzolini
vladas wrote: Thank you for all these good ideas. I will check them out. vladas Foremost might help too. It find for file headers/footers. Don't know if it will help on a very fragmented FAT, but it worked for me on an ext3 partition, where i deleted some files. The only problem is that it

Re: hints for scanning msdosfs patters?

2006-07-06 Thread knitti
On 7/6/06, vladas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have fd up the first 10Mb of the 3Gb fat disk (not partition, the whole 3Gb disk) full of windoze shit. Then, due to time limits, made some of sort of backup of the mess with dd and put Puffy into that disk (dedicated install). The problem is that

Re: hints for scanning msdosfs patters?

2006-07-06 Thread vladas
if there was only one partion with FAT, you#re out of luck with any standard tool because the fat is within the first 10 mb. the are tools out there (google something like 'file recovery FAT'), but I don't know whether such exist for OpenBSD: In any case, the more fragmented the FAT was, the

Re: hints for scanning msdosfs patters?

2006-07-06 Thread Jimmy Mäkelä | Loopia AB
vladas wrote: due to the first 10Mb being gone, I do not expect to find any valid fs anymore. What I still hope for are individual files from the 3Gb image file that I have. I mean e.g. exe's, or dll's, zip's, lha's etc should have their size written in them or their data structures, not only

Re: hints for scanning msdosfs patters?

2006-07-06 Thread Tom Cosgrove
vladas 6-Jul-06 13:46 Thank you for your replies. I was not clear enough in the first place: due to the first 10Mb being gone, I do not expect to find any valid fs anymore. What I still hope for are individual files from the 3Gb image file that I have. I mean e.g. exe's, or dll's, zip's,

Re: hints for scanning msdosfs patters?

2006-07-06 Thread Liviu Daia
On 6 July 2006, vladas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] I was not clear enough in the first place: due to the first 10Mb being gone, I do not expect to find any valid fs anymore. What I still hope for are individual files from the 3Gb image file that I have. I mean e.g. exe's, or dll's, zip's,

Re: hints for scanning msdosfs patters?

2006-07-06 Thread vladas
Thank you all for your really informative replies.

Re: hints for scanning msdosfs patters?

2006-07-06 Thread Shane J Pearson
Hello Vladas, On 2006.07.06, at 9:56 PM, vladas wrote: I have fd up the first 10Mb of the 3Gb fat disk (not partition, the whole 3Gb disk) full of windoze shit. Then, due to time limits, made some of sort of backup of the mess with dd and put Puffy into that disk (dedicated install). The

Re: hints for scanning msdosfs patters?

2006-07-06 Thread Nick Guenther
On 7/6/06, Shane J Pearson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Vladas, On 2006.07.06, at 9:56 PM, vladas wrote: I have fd up the first 10Mb of the 3Gb fat disk (not partition, the whole 3Gb disk) full of windoze shit. Then, due to time limits, made some of sort of backup of the mess with dd

Re: hints for scanning msdosfs patters?

2006-07-06 Thread Shane J Pearson
Hi Nick, On 2006.07.07, at 2:51 PM, Nick Guenther wrote: I've used R-Studio and it works quite well (and quickly so long as you keep your computer out of screensavers and things). It's somewhat expensive at 100$. It works by just scanning the disk for signatures of files, and is usually able