Adrianvdh Posted February 11, 2013 Posted February 11, 2013 (edited) Hi i have accidently started to write 000s to my hdd with Parted Magic software... I started at 1% and i cancelled it. Will i be able to recover my data with Ontrack EasyRecover Pro? It gets to like 2.50% and just hangs P.S this is life or death Edited February 11, 2013 by Adrianvdh
LIGHTNING UK! Posted February 11, 2013 Posted February 11, 2013 If it gets to 2.5% and hangs, you already have your answer... 'No'. I've used r-studio in the past to recover stuff. Let it do a complete hdd scan and then copy/rescue/restore what you can from the listing it comes up with onto another drive.
Adrianvdh Posted February 11, 2013 Author Posted February 11, 2013 (edited) Ok I downloaded it and installed it but i need R for it how do i download that from the webpage? Oh sorry i downloaded a Compiler called rStudio not r-studio never mind Edited February 11, 2013 by Adrianvdh
Adrianvdh Posted February 12, 2013 Author Posted February 12, 2013 Ok I scanned ect and it showed some weird files such as efiboot for windows but like 13000 files but not like in order like... Intel Program Files Program Files (x86) Users\Adrian\documents\folders ect Windows oh it also shows files in like Fat32 partitsions exFat, ect and some NTFS so could you suggest another program...Not Recuva
Adrianvdh Posted February 12, 2013 Author Posted February 12, 2013 So should i just format the drive then?
LIGHTNING UK! Posted February 12, 2013 Posted February 12, 2013 What are you actually trying to save off the hdd? If you can't find the files in r-studio's list (I expect you can search through what it has found) or don't really care if you get them back again or not, yeah just format it and start again.
Adrianvdh Posted February 12, 2013 Author Posted February 12, 2013 Oh usual programs that i have made over the years (2 years) important school files, photos videos (150GB) songs (dont realy care about) ect and alot of software... this is very important stuff so yea... I was realy stupid and used my backup drive to store GOD containers of xbox games for my JTAG so ya thats pritty much it
cornholio7 Posted February 12, 2013 Posted February 12, 2013 give file scavenger a go, it might work, i have used it myself with success http://www.quetek.com/bin/32fsu32.exe
Adrianvdh Posted February 13, 2013 Author Posted February 13, 2013 (edited) Ok i used that but my files still look the same as on R-Studio all unknown? And with mixed partinsion such as FAT32 exFAT and some NTFS Edited February 13, 2013 by Adrianvdh
LIGHTNING UK! Posted February 13, 2013 Posted February 13, 2013 Going back to r-studio... When you tell it to scan, just tell it to only scan for NTFS stuff (I assume that's the FS used on the HDD?). I'm pretty sure I remember there being several random things listed on the one I did years ago, you need to find the 'most correct' branches from what's listed. Recover is hardly ever going to be perfect.
Adrianvdh Posted February 13, 2013 Author Posted February 13, 2013 Ok but isnt the other partitions stuff needed? because this was my System drive that only had one partitions...
LIGHTNING UK! Posted February 13, 2013 Posted February 13, 2013 Why would it be? You've got a drive you're trying to recover that you know is (was) formatted using NTFS. Why would you bother looking for other filesystems?
Adrianvdh Posted February 13, 2013 Author Posted February 13, 2013 Yes but why would those files be there?
LIGHTNING UK! Posted February 13, 2013 Posted February 13, 2013 They aren't, it's just picking up a signature from a sector on the drive. When there are x million of them, that's bound to happen eventually.
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