On 7/6/06, Shane J Pearson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello Vladas,
On 2006.07.06, at 9:56 PM, vladas wrote:
> I have f****d up the first 10Mb of the 3Gb fat disk
> (not partition, the whole 3Gb disk) full of windoze
> shit. Then, due to time limits, made some of sort
> of backup of the mess with dd and put Puffy into
> that disk (dedicated install). The problem is that
> management needs some of that stuff back <..>.
>
> I would be grateful if anybody could give any hints
> on how to grep the 3Gb backup image for any msdosfs
> patterns so that I could get at least some of the
> individual files back. Sorry for asking it like that
> instead of just reading mount_msdos src silently
> - maybe someone had this before..
>
> I am posting this to misc@ because Puffy is the
> only OS I run.
Do you have access to a Windows machine? The best file recovery
applications for FAT file systems I have found, are Windows apps,
oddly enough.
I have had great success with "Get Data Back". It is comparatively
very cheap yet was the best I have tried even amongst file recovery
apps costing thousands. They sell the FAT and NTFS versions
separately. In fact it finds files from multiple old file-systems
which even the "Forensic Tool Kit" does not find. I have used GDB ($
$) to compliment FTK ($$$$) in the past.
http://www.runtime.org/gdb.htm
BTW, I have no affiliation with Runtime. It just saved my bacon once
under a pretty bleak situation (girlfriends data! Yikes). I've since
recommended it to others who also found it to get their data back. A
friend of mine had a motherboard die, he was using the motherboards
built in IDE "RAID" 0. I told him about GDB, I thought he tried it
and it worked for him. But I've since noticed that Runtime now has
recovery software specifically for disks used in a RAID, which might
have been what he used. Regardless, Runtime even got his files back.
I've used R-Studio and it works quite well (and quickly so long as you
keep your computer out of screensavers and things). It's somewhat
expensive at 100$. It works by just scanning the disk for signatures
of files, and is usually able to recover a lot.
http://www.r-studio.com/
-Nick
