On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:25 AM, rishi agrawal <postrishi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Although it is off-topic on this list - i would suggest a simple thing here since you seem to have valuable data on the disk. Before you use any tools for recovery, create a raw copy(image) of the entire partition on another hard disk. The dd command in linux/unix will be useful for doing that. Once you have the image, you can mount it (in linux or any other OS of your choice) and experiment on it in various ways. This way, you won't risk losing your data in case, any tool behaves badly.
Best regards,
Pranav
http://pranavsbrain.peshwe.com
Sorry for the previous mails....
I tried a NTFS recovery tool named as
1st NTFS Recovery 3.3.1.0( evaluation Version).
It is very good. It took out the whole directory structure correctly. The only problem is that in order to access the files I need to pay for it and I dont want to do that.
As the directory structure is correct it is proved that the partition is untouched and correct and simple MBR manipulations can result in recovering the drive correctly.
I am quite hesitant to do anything without a clear cut idea as i may lose the data.
Although it is off-topic on this list - i would suggest a simple thing here since you seem to have valuable data on the disk. Before you use any tools for recovery, create a raw copy(image) of the entire partition on another hard disk. The dd command in linux/unix will be useful for doing that. Once you have the image, you can mount it (in linux or any other OS of your choice) and experiment on it in various ways. This way, you won't risk losing your data in case, any tool behaves badly.
Best regards,
Pranav
http://pranavsbrain.peshwe.com
