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Hard Drive Recovery

  • 08-08-2007 09:51PM
    #1
    PDD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,019 ✭✭✭


    Hi Folks,

    I have a HDD which had many FAT-32 partitions on it but thanks to the joys of using Acronis it seems that the partition information is completely screwed up because all I can see is multiple copies of one partition. Does anyone have any idea how I would go about recovering files or is it even possible seeing as they are FAT-32 partitions?

    Ive tried booting it with a live CD and it mounts one partition about 14 times but they are all listed as seperate partitions.

    PDD


Comments

  • #2
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 96,137 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    partition recovery

    backup the existing partition table
    backup the existing partition table
    backup the existing partition table

    gpart you probably already have ( man gpart for info on backing up partition table)

    http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk - this lets you browse the candidate partitions so you can see if the files match


  • #3
    Khannie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,485 ✭✭✭✭Khannie


    Failing that....dd_rescue to the rescue tbh (the underscore is important).


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