[Shotimes] OT: file recovery utilities

[Ron Porter]

Next time, back up that drive!!

IIRC, in your original post, you said that was your backup HD. Well, if it
was truly your backup HD, it should have also had the data stored elsewhere.

It sounds like it was really your "archive" HD. If that's the case, it
should still be backed up somewhere. Any device that is a "backup" means
that it is a copy of something else.....meaning that you must have two
copies.

FWIW, I personally would never use a HD as an archive. It's not "if" they
die, it's "when" they die!!

Ron Porter

-----Original Message-----
From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net [mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net]
On Behalf Of Ian Fisher
Sent: Saturday, July 09, 2005 9:16 AM
To: cmichaelo@optonline.net
Cc: shotimes@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Shotimes] OT: file recovery utilities

ahhh..IIRC, Seagate's ActiveX utility scanned the
drive online and said that it had possible bad
sectors.

Thanks for the link-Ironically I had just read it last
night but didn't investigate the testdisk utility. I
saw that the article was a few years old so I was
wondering if anyone had experience with anything newer
or better. 

It looks like I need a new HD to transfer data to if
this works. :)

Thanks!
Ian


--- cmichaelo@optonline.net wrote:

> Ian,
> 
> Sounds like you have both lost your partition
> information, or that the partition info has been
> damaged, which might explain why your drive is full
> all of a sudden.
> 
> You said up front that you have bad sectors. How do
> you know this?
> 
> There are ways to examine and possibly recover a
> harddrive that doesn't boot and which has messed up
> partition info.
> 
> Check out testdisk:
> http://www.cgsecurity.org/index.html?testdisk.html
> 
> testdisk and other freeware recovery utilities are
> discussed here:
>
http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=1139
> 
> 
> Michael
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