Thank you all very much for the advice. You've helped make my friend very
happy.
I used dd to make the backup as suggested (I had thought about doing that
but didn't know the syntax) and then used Photorec on the image created by
dd.
The simplicity of Photorec has made me more confident to tackle other
recovery issues although there didn't seem to be any documentation available
for it that I could see (only for TestDisk). I don't think that the backup
image was strictly necessary when using Photorec as it copied all the
recovered files to a specified directory (rather than alter the image).
So, thanks again!
-Alasdair-
On 11/27/06, Alan Pope <alan@???> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Nov 25, 2006 at 02:54:16AM +0000, Alasdair Ross wrote:
> > I haven't attempted any kind of data recovery before so I am reluctant
> to
> > try anything without any advice.
> >
>
> As was suggested, make a backup first.
>
> At LUGRadio I had an issue with some files being lost/corrupted on a FAT
> digital camera stick. A
> very clever man came over and helped me with the aid of the mtools
> package. The cunning thing to
> do is copy (using dd) the partition onto your hard disk and do the
> recovery on that. Leave the
> memory card well alone. That way you can backup the image on your hard
> disk and try all manner of
> stuff to get it back without risking making things worse on the stick. We
> ended up fudging bits
> directly in the disk image and the files came back.
>
> Magicrescue also looks interesting:-
>
> Magic Rescue scans a block device for file types it knows how to recover
> and calls an external program to extract them. It looks at "magic bytes"
> in file contents, so it can be used both as an undelete utility and for
> recovering a corrupted drive or partition. As long as the file data is
> there, it will find it.
> .
>
> Cheers,
> Al.
>
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