[Bradford] Recovering "missing" files from NTFS

[Nick Rhodes]

Thanks,

I should be able to formulate a battle plan with all the above info :)

On 17 March 2015 at 13:19, John Robert Hudson <j.r.hudson at virginmedia.com>
wrote:

> Hi David
>
> That is the beauty of System rescue. Unlike Parted Magic, it does not mount
> anything itself. So the damaged components are not touched other than by a
> specific operator command.
>
> To use ddrescue, all you need to do is to mount the damaged filesystem and
> the
> destination to which you intend to make the copy (which could be another
> network, another hard drive, a USB flash disk etc.). Nothing else on the
> machine is touched by System rescue.
>
> John
> --
> On Tuesday 17 Mar 2015 11:25:32 David Spencer wrote:
> > Well there are multiple do's and dont's depending on what happened.
> > If files have been deleted due to operator error, you'll need to do
> > *nothing* to the fs before using something like photorec or some
> > undelete thingie.
> > If it's a hard error on the disk (smartctl -a) you'll need to run
> > ddrescue and work on the image and then identify which files were
> > gonged, there's plenty about that online (basically you need to map
> > the bad block address into the the ntfs inode, or you can fill the bad
> > blocks with something you can grep).
> > If it's some kind of ntfs cockup (system crash corrupted the fs, etc)
> > then the problem you'll find is that the Linux ntfs implementation
> > hasn't got a fully functional fsck and you will get better results
> > from running checkdsk in the recovery console.
> > In all three cases I would start with making a ddrescue image and take
> > it from there...
> >
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> >
> > tarra
> > -D.
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