Wow James,
You have a lot of good questions.
The hard drive is the original on a Windows xp home computer. It is an
emachine so it is not a high end computer.
It is the main drive for the computer. I pulled it out and have
connected it to one of my win 7 64bit computers via a usb connection.
It came prepartition off the shelf.
I plan to reuse the hard drive if I can recreate the "C" partition. I am
in the middle of getting all images, text files and music off the drive
before I attempt to recreate the RAW drive.
I read one fix which said to give the RAW drive a letter then run
"chkdsk "X"/f and that might fix the partitions. I want to get all the
files off the drive first.
I have tried several File recovery programs but the problem is that each
program only recovers a selection of files. What is happening is that
program A gets me the first 400 files and program B gets me the
next 300 files. I cannot find a program that will recover all the JPG
files at one time.
So I am stuck on what to do next, because I do not want to purchase
several File Recovery Programs.
Thanks for you info.
Mike
On 10/10/2013 7:50 PM, James Dugger wrote:
> Mike,
>
> Some questions:
> Have you used SMART on your PC as a first diagnostic tool?
> Is the disk an add on to the PC?
> How new is the drive?
> What brand?
> Was it or did it come pre-partitioned, and if yes was the partition
> used as is or re-partitioned?
> Is the partitioning scheme MBR or GPT?
> Are you planning on continuing to use the HDD in the M$ PC.?
>
> I have had success with many of the latest Linux live CD's reading
> HDD's that were questionable or unreadable to M$ systems. You could
> download Ubuntu's latest Live CD or create a bootable USB of the image
> plug it into the M$ PC boot Linux. Most newest Linux distro's Live
> CD's will attempt to automount all discovered HDD's and read their
> partitions.
>
> Or pull the drive and plug it into one of the Linux Boxes. If the
> Linux OS is new enough and has a full Desktop Environment/GUI like
> Gnome, or KDE etc. Most likely the disk management system will try to
> automount the drive and read any existing partitions. If it comes up
> immediately copy off / backup any files on the disk to the other
> native disks on the Linux box.
>
> Good Luck.
>
> James
>
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 6:15 PM, Stephen <cryptworks@gmail.com
> <mailto:cryptworks@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk
>
> This has been quite successful for me in the past.
>
> On Oct 10, 2013 5:46 PM, "mike Enriquez" <mylinux@cox.net
> <mailto:mylinux@cox.net>> wrote:
>
> I have a raw hard drive. It is a windows machine but I also
> have some Linux Computers. It appears that if you pull the
> electrical plug from your computer, it could cause your hard
> drive to lose hard drive partition information.
> I am not sure if the same can happen to a Linux computer, so I
> want to find what is available just in case my files disappear
> on my Linux machines.
> My research has found that some software claims to be able to
> solve lost file problems on both windows and Linux computers.
>
> I have no idea how good these application are?
>
> Recovering deleted files is also of interest to me.
>
> Thanks
> Mike Enriquez
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On 10/10/2013 3:56 PM, Dazed_75 wrote:
>> Mike, we need some information to understand the question.
>> Is this a totally wiped drive, one with some problems, or
>> just deleted files that you are asking about. Tell us you
>> motivation so people can give valid and appropriate answers
>> (other than restore from your backups).
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 3:35 PM, mike Enriquez
>> <mylinux@cox.net <mailto:mylinux@cox.net>> wrote:
>>
>> Does anyone know of software used to recover files in
>> Linux and Winlow systems.
>> I am looking for software that will work on both
>> operating systems.
>> Thanks for any help.
>> Mike Enriquez
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