On Mon, 2016-11-21 at 07:26 -0500, fred roller wrote: > On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 6:30 AM, Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.c > om> wrote: > > > Any help/clue to get the hard disk recovered is highly > > > appreciated. > > > > > > > For a full recovery you can research some advance software which > *may* rebuild. The names escape me atm but it does exists and you > need to be comfortable with some advanced knowledge; or pay for a > service. The other solution is to install "testdisk" which has a > program called "photorec" and let it grab what files it can. Though > designed to recover pics it will recover most coherent files it > recognizes, which is quite a bit. The caveat is that it will have no > structure and the filenames will be gone. You will have file > extensions to identify most but you will have the data to > rebuild/rename by hand. Question becomes: How important is the > data? Otherwise, as Sam pointed out, the disk is roached and re- > partitioning/reformatting is in order with lessons learned. > > -- Fred _______________________________________________ Yeah, I went through this about 10 years ago. Tools have changed since then, of course, but as I remember, I used testdisk and something called the "Trinity Rescue Kit." I don't know if it's still around. I had mostly trashed images for a court case I was working on. I got about 70% of my data back, and it took me many hours of looking at files by hand. There's also extundelete. I don't know if it will work when the entire filesystem has been trashed, but it may be worth a try. Lessons learned is right. rsync is your friend. Now that storage has become so cheap, I always maintain two backups of my data -- one I carry with me on a portable hard drive, and the other I keep locked up at home. billo _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
