Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 16:37:37 +0100 From: James Wilde <james.wilde@glocalnet.com> To: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Disk recovery software Message-ID: <88B628A69858D211B5F200A0C9DB2876D7B103@jupiter>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] A few years ago we needed to recover some data from a disk which had been reformated. This cost us about $500 to fix since we sent the disk away to one of those labs which can read the last n layers of magnetism on the disk or something along those lines, and recover data. Now something similar has happened at home. The old computer I used as a server for our little network (an NT job) finally packed up. The old machine had no tape drive so - naturally - no tape backups. This I have remedied in the new machine. Now I have tried to load the SCSI disk in another old computer also running NT, which suggested, when it came in contact with the old disk that there was something corrupt about it, and it created a new root directory structure based on what it thought it had found. I would really like to get back as much as possible of my old disk which now sits in a FreeBSD (4.1) machine but I don't have $500 to spend on it. FreeBSD sees the new root directory structure. I am wondering whether there is any software in the public domain - or relatively cheap shareware - which I can use for the purpose of trying to recover the information on this disk. I don't believe the guys who did the recovery job at work opened the disk itself, so this had to be a software solution. mvh/regards James [-- Attachment #2 --] <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="MS Exchange Server version 5.5.2650.12"> <TITLE>Disk recovery software</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> <P><FONT SIZE=2>A few years ago we needed to recover some data from a disk which had been reformated. This cost us about $500 to fix since we sent the disk away to one of those labs which can read the last n layers of magnetism on the disk or something along those lines, and recover data.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE=2>Now something similar has happened at home. The old computer I used as a server for our little network (an NT job) finally packed up. The old machine had no tape drive so - naturally - no tape backups. This I have remedied in the new machine. Now I have tried to load the SCSI disk in another old computer also running NT, which suggested, when it came in contact with the old disk that there was something corrupt about it, and it created a new root directory structure based on what it thought it had found. I would really like to get back as much as possible of my old disk which now sits in a FreeBSD (4.1) machine but I don't have $500 to spend on it. FreeBSD sees the new root directory structure.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE=2>I am wondering whether there is any software in the public domain - or relatively cheap shareware - which I can use for the purpose of trying to recover the information on this disk. I don't believe the guys who did the recovery job at work opened the disk itself, so this had to be a software solution.</FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE=2>mvh/regards</FONT> </P> <P><FONT SIZE=2>James</FONT> </P> </BODY> </HTML>
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