Re: Recovering data from NTFS disk

2010-01-09 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, I made a list of forensics packages: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch10.en.html#listofpackagesfoforensicanalysis On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 07:30:37PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > The filesystem on the disk is clearly toast. Mounting it as the wrong > type won't help. Sta

Re: Recovering data from NTFS disk

2010-01-08 Thread KS
Jochen Schulz wrote: > KS: >> >> I have already started testdisk and it is analysing the disk since the >> last hour or so. Should be finished soon. > > Good luck! > >> It might give me an hint as to what is the status of the disk. No, it coudn't find any partition table after 2 passes. I start

Re: Recovering data from NTFS disk

2010-01-07 Thread Jochen Schulz
KS: > > > I have already started testdisk and it is analysing the disk since the > last hour or so. Should be finished soon. Good luck! > It might give me an hint as to what is the status of the disk. Install smartmontools and try to run smartctl -a /dev/sdb on it. Then post the output. It mig

Re: Recovering data from NTFS disk

2010-01-07 Thread KS
Rob Owens wrote: > > I think photorec is the right tool for you. It's part of the testdisk > package, which somebody mentioned already. I've used photorec several > times to recover files (all kinds, not just photos) from drives that > were unreadable by other means. > > -Rob > > I have alrea

Re: Recovering data from NTFS disk

2010-01-07 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 08:12:27PM -0500, KS wrote: > Jochen Schulz wrote: > > KS: > >> r...@sysresccd /root % mount -o loop -t iso9660 > > > > Why do you mount the dump file from ddrescue as ISO image? Doesn't the > > subject say it should actually contain an NTFS filesystem? I am > > surprised t

Re: Recovering data from NTFS disk

2010-01-07 Thread John Hasler
The filesystem on the disk is clearly toast. Mounting it as the wrong type won't help. Start looking at forensics packages: magicrescue - recovers files by looking for magic bytes myrescue - rescue data from damaged harddisks scrounge-ntfs - Data recovery program for NTFS filesystems autopsy - g

Re: Recovering data from NTFS disk

2010-01-07 Thread KS
Jochen Schulz wrote: > KS: >> r...@sysresccd /root % mount -o loop -t iso9660 > > Why do you mount the dump file from ddrescue as ISO image? Doesn't the > subject say it should actually contain an NTFS filesystem? I am > surprised that this actually works. I tried with ntfs flag too and it doesn'

Re: Recovering data from NTFS disk

2010-01-07 Thread KS
John Hasler wrote: > KS writes: >> I connected it in my machine (internal SATA) and just did a ddrescue >> of the disk to a 1.5TB hard disk using a Sysrescue CD. The process >> tells me that there were 37 errors totalling 151kB. > > Ok... > >> The ISO image generated is about 466GB. > > "ISO"?

Re: Recovering data from NTFS disk

2010-01-07 Thread John Hasler
KS writes: > I connected it in my machine (internal SATA) and just did a ddrescue > of the disk to a 1.5TB hard disk using a Sysrescue CD. The process > tells me that there were 37 errors totalling 151kB. Ok... > The ISO image generated is about 466GB. "ISO"? I thought you made an image of a NT

Re: Recovering data from NTFS disk

2010-01-07 Thread Jochen Schulz
KS: > > r...@sysresccd /root % mount -o loop -t iso9660 Why do you mount the dump file from ddrescue as ISO image? Doesn't the subject say it should actually contain an NTFS filesystem? I am surprised that this actually works. > /mnt/windows/rescueData.iso /mnt/cdrom > r...@sysresccd /root % ls

Recovering data from NTFS disk

2010-01-07 Thread KS
Hi all, A friend of mine gave me his hard disk to try to rescue data from it. It is a 500GB SATA drive which was in an USB enclosure. His machine (Windows XP) is unable to detect it when the enclosure is connected. I connected it in my machine (internal SATA) and just did a ddrescue of the disk t