Re: how to retrieve info from a bad disk?
The final, and arguably most important thing is to always back up your
important data...
I know it's a little late in the game, but this is an important lesson
to learn for future reference...
On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 3:02 PM, Gary Dale <garydale@rogers.com> wrote:
> On 21/04/12 11:22 AM, abdelkader belahcene wrote:
>>
>> hi,
>> I have a disk ( I tera Bytes it contains important data!!!) formatted
>> with nfts,
>> somebody used it in wind$ a virus seems destroy "something" in
>> partition table ???
>>
>> Now no access is possible, although the partition is recognized as
>> /dev/sdb1 with correct sie, but no possibility to
>> retive files.
>> I tried ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 t gave segmentaion fault
>> I tried testdisk it analysed the disk and gathered the data, I
>> tried to list the files , it gave same error as ntfs-3g, I mean
>> segmentation fault??
>>
>>
>> Is there another rescue software ??
>> thanks for help
>>
>> regards
>>
> Firstly, copy the entire disk to another one of the same or larger size by
> booting from a live distro such as sysrecuecd and using dd (e.g. dd
> if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb).
>
> Secondly, using the copy of the disk, try to rescue the disk using testdisk.
> This may reconstruct the partition table. If it doesn't work, you can try
> photorec to recover files. For photorec, recover the files to a third disk,
> not to the original or copy.
>
>
>
> --
> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.org with a subject
> of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org
> Archive: [🔎] 4F93045B.5040500@rogers.com">http://lists.debian.org/[🔎] 4F93045B.5040500@rogers.com
>
Reply to: