[Liverpool] Data recovery

[Anthony Thomas]

Thanks for your advice, Ill put it down to a valuable
lesson learnt.
Its ironic that only last week I was telling someone
who lost years of accounts that they shud be making
backups and also not using floppy disks!!

Tony
--- Dave Brotherstone <davegb at pobox.com> wrote:

> Anthony,
>   If you've written a disk image onto another disk,
> unless you are
> incredibly lucky, you will have overwritten your old
> files.  This is
> because files are typically written at the beginning
> of the disk, so
> unless the image you wrote was much smaller than the
> disk you wrote it
> to, then you've lost the beginning of the disk.  If,
> however, your
> image was much smaller than the actual disk you
> wrote to, then you
> might be in luck for the files that were in the
> later part of the
> original disk.  NTFS stores a copy of the master
> file table in (I
> think, from memory), the logical middle of the disk,
> as well as at the
> beginning.  Obviously the one at the beginning has
> been overwritten,
> but the one in the middle may still be there.  I
> think it's also held
> at the end of the disk for some versions of NTFS,
> but I can't just
> remember off the top of my head.  A "normal" file
> scanner should be
> able to extract the files from this sort of
> accident.
> 
> When my NTFS disk corrupted, and it wasn't a bad
> corruption, I didn't
> have any success with any file retrieval software. 
> My only saving
> grace was I knew what files were on there, and they
> were mostly the
> same type, so I could scan the disk for the magic
> number at the start
> of the file, follow the file format to get the
> length of the file, and
> then copy that block out to a new file.   Obviously
> if the disk has
> been used for a while, and hence you've got
> fragmented files, or
> you've got a whole mix of files you need back, then
> this method won't
> work.
> 
> All I can say is, good luck!
> 
> Cheers,
> Dave.
> 
> On 16/10/06, Anthony Thomas
> <anthonyicthomas at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> > NTFS
> > --- Vladimir Jakubovskij
> > <vladimir.jakubovskij at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > could u just give more details: filesystems
> types at
> > > least.
> > >
> > > On 10/16/06, Anthony Thomas
> > > <anthonyicthomas at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > This is my first email to the group.
> > > > I used Norton ghost to duplicate a hard drive,
> > > > unfortunately overwrote the wrong drive.
> > > > I have accidently lost the contents of a hard
> > > drive
> > > > containing my files.
> > > > I have tried to recover the data with no
> success
> > > using
> > > > windows based recovery software.
> > > > Does anyone know of a good linux data recovery
> > > > application to get my files back?
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Anthony Thomas B.Sc Design Technology with Qualified Teaching Status.  
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* MP3/Digital Sound Recording (MIDI).
* Digital Photography/Scanners.
* Broadband, ADSL, Video and DVD Recording.
* Newsgroups and Downloading Music, Films and Software etc.
* FREE Antivirus and Firewall.
* Fighting Spam, Spyware, Spybot, Hijackers, Adware,   Malware, Keyloggers, Worms, Hacker Tools, PC Parasites,   Trojan Horses, Spy Programs, Trackware, Spoofing and   Phishing.
* Voice Over Internet Protocol (V.O.I.P.) Skype
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Tell your friends!