From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 26 7:38:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from jupiter.glocalnet.com (unknown [195.242.50.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD8EF37B4C5 for ; Sun, 26 Nov 2000 07:38:24 -0800 (PST) Received: by jupiter with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Sun, 26 Nov 2000 16:37:38 +0100 Message-ID: <88B628A69858D211B5F200A0C9DB2876D7B103@jupiter> From: James Wilde To: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Disk recovery software Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 16:37:37 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C057BE.CE4D99AE" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C057BE.CE4D99AE Content-Type: text/plain 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 ------_=_NextPart_001_01C057BE.CE4D99AE Content-Type: text/html Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Disk recovery software

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

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