Re: HDD Data Recovery with start of disk over written

Had some experience with this in the past - also look into:


Scalpel

Foremost

And others here:

http://www.noah.org/wiki/Forensics,_Undelete,_and_Data_Recovery



G/L!


Elroy.






Neil Henwood wrote:
> Hi All
>
> After being a read only member of this list for a while, I seem to have
> got myself into a bit of a jam and need some assistance to see if I can
> get it sorted out.
>
> Issue is that I was writing an ISO to a USB drive, but instead of
> writing to the 4GB USB drive, I wrote to the first 500Mb odd of the
> 750Gb USB HDD that was at the next drive letter. (f & g are very close
> on the keyboard.) The 750Gb drive is (was) formatted as NTFS.
>
> I'm sure that there will be a way to get the data past the written ISO
> back, but I cannot figure it out as yet.
>
> I have tried to use ddrescue to create a ISO of the overwritten drive
> (less the over ridden part) to another drive, but am unable to read it.
> Most likely the way I am trying to mount the image.
>
> Is any body able to point me in the right direction of how I can recover
> the remaining data on this HDD. I'm not concerned if I use windows or
> linux to do the recovery.
>
> Thanks all in advance.
>
> Regards
>
> Neil
>
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