Re: SOS : All my data is gone!

Another option on the track you are following, with that windows PC and the
SCSI controller, try using the knoppix STD image (all the forensics tools
are on the CD).
www.knoppix-std.org

Which might be easier than trying to build alpha specific versions.

Brian..

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brian Parkhurst" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2005 8:36 PM
Subject: Re: [gentoo-alpha] SOS : All my data is gone!


> Just a thought, have you looked into autopsy and the various forensic
> toolkits (e.g. TCT (the coroners toolkit))
> available for linux?
>
> It may be able to recover more of your data.  You may need to be able to
> compile them for alpha though.
>
> Brian Parkhurst
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jean-Sébastien Guay" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2005 7:57 PM
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-alpha] SOS : All my data is gone!
>
>
> > Hello Rikard,
> >
> > >What filesystem are you using?
> > >
> > >
> >
> > I was using ext3.
> >
> > >I had a similar mishap with a reiserfs system loosing all the data on
> > >2x30 GB disks. (both full to about 85%)
> > >It turned out to be a trashed journal that could (to some extent) be
> salvaged
> > >via rescueattempts using the ordinary reiserfs tools.
> > >
> > >
> >
> > When I rebooted with the 2004.3 LiveCD, I ran e2fsck on the drive, and
> > it said my journal was corrupted. It deleted it, and said I needed to
> > run tune2fs -j on the drive again to recreate it. But even after that,
> > the data still seems to be lost (the drive is totally empty).
> >
> > What I think I'll do next is install a SCSI card in a Windows PC I have,
> > and try some recovery tools like for example
> > http://www.data-recovery-software.net/Linux_Recovery.shtml ... Don't
> > know if that will work though. If someone can suggest something else...
> > Maybe the data is still there but just not accessible via the
> > filesystem, how could I go about trying to retrieve it?
> >
> > Thanks for the suggestions though, at least I'm trying things...
> >
> > J-S
> >
> > -- 
> > ___________________________________________
> > Jean-Sébastien Guay   [email protected]
> >              http://whitestar02.webhop.org/
> >
> >
> >
> > -- 
> > No virus found in this outgoing message.
> > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus.
> > Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.9.15 - Release Date: 2005/04/16
> >
> > -- 
> > [email protected] mailing list
> >
> >
>
> -- 
> [email protected] mailing list
>
>

-- 
[email protected] mailing list