On December 30, 2013, Anders Holmberg wrote: > I will give grml a try as the ntfs partition on my western digital > elements usb drive has gone south. That stinks. What sorts of files were lost? There are some filetype-specific recovery utilities that can scour the drive. I don't know whether NTFS throws any additional wrinkles into the equation (particularly if you had an encrypted NTFS partition) but you can try using something like fgrep --binary-files=text -C 2000 "string in file" /dev/sda2 > recovered_data.out which would search the hard-drive image for some fixed string that you know is in the file, and writes the dumped data to recovered_data.out It might not be perfect, but depending on the filetype of the data you're hunting for, it can make a fair shot at recovering things. I've used that to successfully recover text, HTML, Markdown, XML, and the like. If they're JPEG images, I've used the "recoverjpeg" utility to recover images with amazing ability. -tim _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list