HDD Data Recovery with start of disk over written

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Hi Neil,
Have a look at Runtime Software's GetDataBack software.
It's not free but not expensive.
I used it a bit in the time when NTFS had not fully replaced FAT32 and a microsoft tool for recovering NTFS file directory after a particular bug attack was often mis-applied to FAT32 systems thereby loosing the root directory data.
It is easy to use and in my experience reliable.
Make sure you get the version that is for NTFS.
It scans the disk to find reconisable file or folder directory blocks then recovers the files listed from there.
It is non destructive on the broken disk so you'll need somewhere else to store the rebuilt directory structures.

cheers
Graham

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Message: 2
Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2011 17:44:33 +1300
From: Neil Henwood <[email protected]>
Subject: [nzlug] HDD Data Recovery with start of disk over written
To: [email protected]
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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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