On Fri, 28 Dec 2012 21:45:20 +0900 Osamu Aoki <os...@debian.org> wrote:
> Hi, > > On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 01:19:21PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Fri, 2012-12-28 at 12:50 +0100, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org > > wrote: > > > > I have heard good things of PhotoRec: > > > > > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhotoRec > > > > http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec > > > > > > > > But I have no personal experience of it. The advice is always > > > > to copy the > > > > drive that needs rescuing to another drive, and work on the > > > > copy, not the > > > > orginal. Again, I have not tried it. > > > > > > > > Lisi > > > > > > Thanks for the hint, I'll try it this afternoon on (2) > > > > Mount the drive read only, than there is no need to backup. There > > are all kinds of commands to recover data, usually they don't > > recover the data on the corrupted drive, but save the files to > > another place, so it's no problem to mount a drive read only. > > Yah, if you can mount, then it is good idea to mount as read-only > first to recover and secure data by copying them to another disk. > > But that may not get you as much data as we wish. testdisk/photorec > tools can work on corrupted disk without using normal mounting. You > certainly need place to write recovered data. Making disk image and > working on it makes things easy. > > Osamu > I second the use of photorec, part of testdisk. Working on the dead drive directly, it recovered all of my 'lost' photos, a holiday special. Cybe R. Wizard -- Nice computers don't go down. Larry Niven, Steven Barnes "The Barsoom Project" -- 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/20121228090613.12027087@wizardstower