Re: HDD Data Recovery with start of disk over written

This is what I ended up using in the end.It got most of what I was 
expecting back. Have some other directories to look into, but overall was Ok

On 11/11/11 20:06, graham dixon wrote:
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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.
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> 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]
> Message-ID:<[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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