Home | Community | Message Board
You are not signed in.
Sign In New Account
Forum Index Search Posts Trusted Vendors Highlights Galleries FAQ User List Chat Store Random Growery

Sporeworks
This site includes paid links. Please support our sponsors.

General Interest > Science and Technology
Threaded Mode Threaded  Previous topic Previous  View all topics Index  Next topic Next 

Welcome to the Shroomery Message Board! You are experiencing a small sample of what the site has to offer. Please login or register to post messages and view our exclusive members-only content. You'll gain access to additional forums, file attachments, board customizations, encrypted private messages, and much more!

Jump to first unread post Pages: 1
Can anyone recommend some data recovery software?
    #5741071 -

I'm looking for some decent software (preferably FOSS but I don't mind cracking stuff) that can scan an HDD and recover files by filetype (e.g. doc and txt).

I know I could find some stuff on google, but recommendations can be really helpful.

Cheers

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: Can anyone recommend some data recovery software? [Re: OJK]
    #5741243 -

It's more matter of the filesystem than the format of the files. What are you looking for? Undeleting, data salvaging from damaged FSs?


--------------------
Drugs in me, my report blog

Peyote Nethack!

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: Can anyone recommend some data recovery software? [Re: funnybunny]
    #5741256 -

My brother wants me to recover some documents from an HDD, it was fat32 when the documents were written to it but it's since been formatted with NTFS.

Does that sound possible / difficult?

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: Can anyone recommend some data recovery software? [Re: OJK]
    #5744790 -

I've recovered things with testdisk, but not to that extent. The file allocation table is probably completely fucked up. If so, it's a pretty hard job.

You may use this http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/UK/welcome.htm it claims it works even with FAT broken.

And remember: work on an image of the partition rather than the partition, if possible. Good luck.


--------------------
Drugs in me, my report blog

Peyote Nethack!

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: Can anyone recommend some data recovery software? [Re: OJK]
    #5745040 -

It does sound difficult. If he reformatted the drive and used it for a while you'll probably need professionals that can calculate the previous value of a sector based on its magnetic characteristic and those surrounding it. Not something you can do with commodity software but if you say there were terrorist plans on the drive maybe the government will do it for you. :wink:

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: Can anyone recommend some data recovery software? [Re: Ythan]
    #5745063 -

If by terrorist plans you mean donkey pr0n...

anyways, I've abandoned the project, the data wasn't worth the time and energy trying to recover it would take.

Thanks anyway guys

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Jump to top Pages: 1

General Interest > Science and Technology
Threaded Mode Threaded  Previous topic Previous  View all topics Index  Next topic Next 

Similar ThreadsPosterViewsRepliesLast post
* Recovering data from a formatted hard drive SoopaX 1,982 11 11/16/04 08:49 PM
by abhi
* "quick format" and recovery supercollider 1,486 8 12/26/08 08:35 AM
by supercollider
* lost everything, virus,destructive recovery, all media gone A3eyedfish 764 5 04/15/05 06:47 PM
by A3eyedfish
* DVD-copying software illegal, says judge. Xochitl 1,135 2 02/22/04 06:37 AM
by Seuss
* Software Bullet Is Sought to Kill Musical Piracy pattern 2,245 12 08/20/20 02:03 PM
by nektar61
* I need more data storage... ToolTroll 1,836 15 01/06/06 05:33 PM
by Schwip
* MP3 Editing Software recommend request Lightningfractal 1,010 5 12/22/03 10:41 AM
by Lightningfractal
* Favorite software for windows? reflectedlight 1,378 15 10/31/03 03:55 PM
by Seuss

Extra information
You cannot start new topics / You cannot reply to topics
HTML is disabled / BBCode is enabled
Moderator: trendal, automan, Northerner
786 topic views. 0 members, 32 guests and 1 web crawlers are browsing this forum.
[ Show Images Only | Sort by Score | Print Topic ]
Search this thread:

Copyright 1997-2026 Mind Media. Some rights reserved.

Generated in 0.027 seconds spending 0.007 seconds on 16 queries.