The final, and arguably most important thing is to always back up your important data...
I know it's a little late in the game, but this is an important lesson to learn for future reference... On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 3:02 PM, Gary Dale <garyd...@rogers.com> wrote: > On 21/04/12 11:22 AM, abdelkader belahcene wrote: >> >> hi, >> I have a disk ( I tera Bytes it contains important data!!!) formatted >> with nfts, >> somebody used it in wind$ a virus seems destroy "something" in >> partition table ??? >> >> Now no access is possible, although the partition is recognized as >> /dev/sdb1 with correct sie, but no possibility to >> retive files. >> I tried ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 t gave segmentaion fault >> I tried testdisk it analysed the disk and gathered the data, I >> tried to list the files , it gave same error as ntfs-3g, I mean >> segmentation fault?? >> >> >> Is there another rescue software ?? >> thanks for help >> >> regards >> > Firstly, copy the entire disk to another one of the same or larger size by > booting from a live distro such as sysrecuecd and using dd (e.g. dd > if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb). > > Secondly, using the copy of the disk, try to rescue the disk using testdisk. > This may reconstruct the partition table. If it doesn't work, you can try > photorec to recover files. For photorec, recover the files to a third disk, > not to the original or copy. > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject > of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f93045b.5040...@rogers.com > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAKmZw+a=g6-4hmok8xwyxmoe1x+coicu1vs1asctq9pxqcz...@mail.gmail.com