Recovery procedures of NTFS filesystem

[William Muriithi]

Robert,

Thanks for encouragement. I am progressing very carefully from here. A
question, what exactly does mkfsext3 do? Does it go over all the
sectors putting down marking or does it just mess up with partition
table? What the main difference between mkfs and formatting?

Regards,
William

2008/6/30 Robert Brockway <robert-5LEc/6Zm6xCUd8a0hrldnti2O/JbrIOy at public.gmane.org>:
> On Mon, 30 Jun 2008, Robert Brockway wrote:
>
> On Mon, 30 Jun 2008, I wrote:
>
>> William, the key is to not do anything else to the disk (reparition again,
>> or
>> whatever) without careful thought.  I can't remember the name of the tool
>> I
>> used last time but I'll see if I can remember.
>
> So I note you already tried TestDisk.  Here are some options:
>
> Gpart: http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/user/76201/gpart/
>
> This can try to recover old partition tables by looking for partition
> boundaries on the disk.
>
> Foremost: http://foremost.sourceforge.net/
>
> This can scan the disk looking for likely suspects that are files.
>
> One safe option if you have the ability is to dd an image of the disk to a
> file on another disk and attempt recovery on the file.  This means you won't
> mess with the original data.  If the image gets messed up you can just make
> another.  If you're not familar with creating a loopback filesystem we can
> help.
>
> If this data is really important, and it is worth it, you may wish to
> contact a data recovery specialist.   This process can be expensive.
>
> Rob
>
> --
> "With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine..."
>        -- RFC 1925 "The Twelve Networking Truths"
>
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