Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 20:55:08 +0200 From: "Martin Tournoij" <carpetsmoker@gmail.com> To: "Mark Manzano" <mwcmark@yahoo.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: file restoration Message-ID: <op.ted356ijoycwod@carpet> In-Reply-To: <20060816162149.10420.qmail@web38708.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <20060816162149.10420.qmail@web38708.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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On Wed, 16 Aug 2006 18:21:49 +0200, Mark Manzano <mwcmark@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hi, > I am using freeBSD Unix and someone deleted a bunch of files from the > hard drive. I know when you delete a file from unix, only the pointer or > inode is deleted and not the actual file. From a software perspective, > the information is probally gone. However on a hardware perspective I > believe the data is still there. Are there any tools to retrieve the > lost files? > This is what I want to do: > On the hardware level the hard drive is a physical storage device > with little tiny "switches" that flip between 1's and 0's. Those > switches stay set to whatever they were set at unless they are set to > something else. What I want to attach the hard drive to another computer > with a second hard drive in it (a blank one) and boot to a floppy disk. > From there, a program or tool will scan all the switches ( 1s and 0s) to > try to find patterns that indicate the presence of files. Then copy > those files to the blank hard drive. > Thank you. > > There are several commercial tools that can restore file on a UFS partition, I'm not aware of any free tools I used Stellar Phoenix (sucsesfully) a while ago after a windows crash destoyed my part of my UFS partition (grmbl!) http://www.stellarinfo.com/disk-recovery.htm#bsd Not cheap though, $355, I don't want to encourage illegal software use, but I managed to find a cracked version on the web... There are several others on the web, Use google.
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