Re: Recovering data from NTFS disk

2010-01-09 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, I made a list of forensics packages: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch10.en.html#listofpackagesfoforensicanalysis On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 07:30:37PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: The filesystem on the disk is clearly toast. Mounting it as the wrong type won't help.

Re: Recovering data from NTFS disk

2010-01-08 Thread KS
Jochen Schulz wrote: KS: I have already started testdisk and it is analysing the disk since the last hour or so. Should be finished soon. Good luck! It might give me an hint as to what is the status of the disk. No, it coudn't find any partition table after 2 passes. I started photorec

Recovering data from NTFS disk

2010-01-07 Thread KS
Hi all, A friend of mine gave me his hard disk to try to rescue data from it. It is a 500GB SATA drive which was in an USB enclosure. His machine (Windows XP) is unable to detect it when the enclosure is connected. I connected it in my machine (internal SATA) and just did a ddrescue of the disk

Re: Recovering data from NTFS disk

2010-01-07 Thread Jochen Schulz
KS: r...@sysresccd /root % mount -o loop -t iso9660 Why do you mount the dump file from ddrescue as ISO image? Doesn't the subject say it should actually contain an NTFS filesystem? I am surprised that this actually works. /mnt/windows/rescueData.iso /mnt/cdrom r...@sysresccd /root % ls

Re: Recovering data from NTFS disk

2010-01-07 Thread John Hasler
KS writes: I connected it in my machine (internal SATA) and just did a ddrescue of the disk to a 1.5TB hard disk using a Sysrescue CD. The process tells me that there were 37 errors totalling 151kB. Ok... The ISO image generated is about 466GB. ISO? I thought you made an image of a NTFS

Re: Recovering data from NTFS disk

2010-01-07 Thread KS
John Hasler wrote: KS writes: I connected it in my machine (internal SATA) and just did a ddrescue of the disk to a 1.5TB hard disk using a Sysrescue CD. The process tells me that there were 37 errors totalling 151kB. Ok... The ISO image generated is about 466GB. ISO? I thought you

Re: Recovering data from NTFS disk

2010-01-07 Thread KS
Jochen Schulz wrote: KS: r...@sysresccd /root % mount -o loop -t iso9660 Why do you mount the dump file from ddrescue as ISO image? Doesn't the subject say it should actually contain an NTFS filesystem? I am surprised that this actually works. I tried with ntfs flag too and it doesn't

Re: Recovering data from NTFS disk

2010-01-07 Thread John Hasler
The filesystem on the disk is clearly toast. Mounting it as the wrong type won't help. Start looking at forensics packages: magicrescue - recovers files by looking for magic bytes myrescue - rescue data from damaged harddisks scrounge-ntfs - Data recovery program for NTFS filesystems autopsy -

Re: Recovering data from NTFS disk

2010-01-07 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 08:12:27PM -0500, KS wrote: Jochen Schulz wrote: KS: r...@sysresccd /root % mount -o loop -t iso9660 Why do you mount the dump file from ddrescue as ISO image? Doesn't the subject say it should actually contain an NTFS filesystem? I am surprised that this

Re: Recovering data from NTFS disk

2010-01-07 Thread KS
Rob Owens wrote: I think photorec is the right tool for you. It's part of the testdisk package, which somebody mentioned already. I've used photorec several times to recover files (all kinds, not just photos) from drives that were unreadable by other means. -Rob I have already

Re: Recovering data from NTFS disk

2010-01-07 Thread Jochen Schulz
KS: I have already started testdisk and it is analysing the disk since the last hour or so. Should be finished soon. Good luck! It might give me an hint as to what is the status of the disk. Install smartmontools and try to run smartctl -a /dev/sdb on it. Then post the output. It might