On 05/09/2013 04:41 PM, Rock wrote: > My 15GB backup USB drive somehow got "corrupted" such that > a "chkdsk /f E:" on WinXP removed the file allocation table > (or whatever) making the NTFS drive appear empty. > > I tried Windows Recuva freeware to recover the files, and > it has been working for 24 hours; but it has dumped about > 65,000 files into a separate flat Windows directory. > http://www3.picturepush.com/photo/a/12892041/img/12892041.jpg > > Since none of the files were deleted or written over, is > there a method on Linux that will simply recover the missing > file allocation directory structure instead of dumping a > hundred thousand files into a single directory? > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos I had to recover a Red Hat Raid array after a motherboard failure... This did it: http://www.recoverdatatools.com/ During the recovery it rebuilt the previous Windows installation as well. It not free but it worked for me several years ago. Hope it helps. There are some linux solutions I had at the time and I am trying to dig up my notes. Fred
