photorec unfortunately only recovers contiguous files, but if you image the disk to a good drive and then rebuild the partition table you might be lucky.
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 10:00 PM, Mike Garrett <[email protected]>wrote: > > Greetings all, > > I've recently had a hard disk crash with some data that I'm trying > desperately to retrieve. Photorec has pulled some of the photos that I need > from it, but not many (though it did pull about 19000 useless jpgs from temp > files on the windows partition. Lol). Photorec pauses about half-way > through the disk and then never finds any more pictures. No OS will assign > a drive letter or see the partitions, and testdisk doesn't see a partition > table, it has to do a "quick search" of the cylinders on the drive to find > the partition table, which it does successfully. > > I tried (foolishly, I know) to write the partition table to the drive, and > it said it wrote it, but it didn't change any of my symptoms. > > That said, what I'd like to do is us ddrescue to create an image of the > problem drive. If the partition table, etc., is corrupt, I'm not sure if > I'll be able to mount the image in linux to do much with the image, will I? > Even if this info is missing, can I still mount the image well enough to > Testdisk it, fix the partition table, then try to see the third partition > with a (hopefully) intact file system? > > Thanks for your time! > > Mike G. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Bug-ddrescue mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-ddrescue >
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