On Sat, 2013-05-11 at 19:18 +0000, Rock wrote:
On Sat, 11 May 2013 15:35:31 +0000, Rock wrote:
Currently I'm at day 3, and almost done recovering the files; but the results (sadly, due to my error in the Recuva settings) are flatter than the plains of Kansas!
Just for the record, Recuva finished at 66 hours: http://www5.picturepush.com/photo/a/12907423/img/12907423.jpeg
It's odd that I'm having trouble finding a good tutorial for Linux recovery of the master table of contents, since it must be happening to others day in and day out.
Fundamentally, the procedure is to "dd" the disk and then work off the backup but I don't want to make a mistake so that's why an exact procedure is so critical to find.
It's expensive being a pioneer; yet I shouldn't have to be a pioneer for this task, since it happens every day.
Will read everything written and try to find a tutorial.
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ok, here is a quick list of what to do:
1) connect your spare disk (USB) (not the bad disk!!!!!) and as root check what device id it got (tail /var/log/messages) look for detected partitions there or do fdisk -l /dev/sdx where the sdx is what you found from /var/log/messages
2) As root Mount the disk: mount /devsdxy /mnt (where y is the partion number you want to mount) if mounted goto 3 This may fail if it is ntfs
2B) If it fails format the disk as ext4: mkfs /dev/sdxy and then mount it as under 2
3) I assume here that your bad disk is already connected (as sdz check first what the real name is)
dd if=/dev/sdz of=/mnt/image.dd bs=1M
This will copy the contents of your bad disk to image.dd
4) just to be sure, make the image read-only chmod uog=r /mnt/image.dd
5) install testdisk from the epel repo yum install testdisk
6) now run photorec from a directory where you have sufficient space, ifg your usb disk is big enough do it there (hint create a sub-directory mdkdir /mnt/recover cd /mnet/recover
but any dorectory would do photorec /mnt/image.dd
The copy to an image is not really required, but better safe then sorry I have written this from Louis