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. > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos 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
