[syslinux] Used mkdiskimage script on wrong drive!

Ryan McLean ryanm at accelrys.com
Mon May 12 02:35:31 PDT 2008


Muller, SA, Mnr <14908832 at sun.ac.za> wrote:
> I have so far been able to recover a lot of my files using 'Partition Find and Mount', but a lot more than 250mb of files seem to be corrupted/missing. One folder of (at least) 20gb is completely inaccessable, I assume some of the file referencing data has been overwritten (not sure if it's called file allocation tables on NTFS, or even if it works that way).
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> After I've copied all the valid files I'm going to try other methods (that actually alter the drive). Do you think that TestDisk will be more succesful in recovering the rest of my data? Would 'deleted file recovery' programs be more appropriate than 'partition disk recovery' programs to retrieve the it?
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> Thanks for your help so far.
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Hi,

It all depends on how fragmented the drive was, as HPA has said you have 
erased 250mb of data but that could be as little as 512bytes of a file 
which would corrupt the rest of the file, the more fragmented your HDD 
then the more files will have been corrupted. Generally speaking the 
only types of file that would be recoverable in any sort of condition 
after losing sections are non-binary files, of course this is assuming 
that the headers of those files are intact. If the commerical recovery 
programs cant recover the files then it is unlikely that you will get 
any further.

If there is vital data on the disk then you could always send it to a 
company specialising in data recovery.

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Regards,


Ryan McLean





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