Re: One of the 'Oh damn' moments

[Simon McCaughey <simonmcc@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thats good to know, it happens to us all at some stage.
Regards

Simon


2009/10/23 John Benfield <john.benfield@xxxxxxx>

> Just thought I'd let people know how I got on with recovering my data
> from a formated disk.
>
> I tried TestDisk but without much success as it appears to only
> understand a smallish number of file types. So I was able to my mp3's
> but all of the file names where mucked up (as only about 50% of them
> are fully tagged, renaming the didn't work too well), I wasn't able to
> recover my raw photos (jpg okay) and no video files.
>
> I ended up trying "Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery"
and
> "GetDataBack for NTFS" which are both commercial products.
Both did
> the job of correctly listing all of the files with the directory
> structures (TestDisk only lists files). I ended up purchasing Windows
> Data Recovery and whilst its not so quick (as I am recovering from a
> 1tb USB drive) it does appear to have been completely successful.
>
> JB
>
> 2009/10/15 David Guest <david.guest@xxxxxxx>:
> > John,
> >
> >
> >
> > I did something similar recently (although the disk had corrupt
sectors
> > as well). One of the best tools I found was TestDisk
> >
> > http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk
> >
> > got back most if not all of the data.
> >
> >
> >
> > Regards
> >
> >
> >
> > David
> >
> >
> >
> > From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
> > Of John Benfield
> > Sent: 15 October 2009 08:54
> > To: UKHA
> > Subject: [ukha_d] One of the 'Oh damn' moments
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Looking for some help here as I had one of the 'oh damn' moments
last
> > night. I paraphrase what I actually said for the more sensitive
of you
> > out there.
> >
> > Last night I rebuild my WHS server, knowing full well that the
disk
> > would be formatted and all data would be lost - you know where
this is
> > going don't you ....
> >
> > Anyway, I copied all of my important data off to a external 1tb
USB
> > drive. Unfortunately when I then rebuilt my WHS I left the drive
> > plugged into the USB slot, and even though the drive was not
listed in
> > the partition list as one that would get format - guess what
happened.
> > Me not at all happy (okay I should have pulled the drive before
start
> > the rebuild).
> >
> > I now have an both internal and external disks with a very basic
WHS
> > file system layout and no bloody files. I am hoping that only the
> > basic header information on the file systems has been overwritten
and
> > the real data is still on the disk.
> >
> > Does anyone have any recommendations of software that might be
able to
> > trawl through the disks and see what It can recover. I done a
quick
> > Google on the subjet and there appear to be many options, so
looking
> > for some more person recommendations.
> >
> > JB
> >
>
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