Re: In-place file recovery?

mscotgrove@xxxxxxx wrote in news:2b1dcc35-26dd-4199-b803-3af893072e6c@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
On Nov 22, 2:02 pm, "Folkert Rienstra" <see_reply...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
mscotgr...@xxxxxxx wrote in news:f9b65bec-178d-4ccc-b01d-3e7ca68d9f39@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
On Nov 22, 6:07 am, yaugin <yau...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
One of my partitions was corrupted by a botched Acronis operation.
The partition is now unreadable, with CHKDSK recognizing it as NTFS
but then returns an error and aborts. But most of the data can still be
found using a recovery program like GetDataBack. But I can't copy over
the data because the damaged partition is bigger than my remaining HD
space. Are there any tools that can perform an in-place recovery of
the partition?

To note, the partition is still visible, just unreadable -- there are
a bunch of utilities for recovering "lost" partitions but that's not
the case here, the partition is accessible but unreadable due to some
error in the file system.

Do not even think about it.

Your data is on an unstable disk and any attempt to recover in place
could overwrite your files *permentantly*.
If you value your files, set up a data recovery program on a different
PC, and access your problem *CD* as a slave drive. Once you are 110%
sure that you have all your data files *intact*, then you can start
making changes to your corrupted drive.

Ooh, that made soo much sense.

On my own recovery program,www.cnwrecovery.com I lock out the
ability to work on the C: drive to try and protect users.

Nice to know that you don't trust your own program one single bit.

Michael

I stick by my statement

Drives can fail, or be corrupted in so many different ways that the
only generic safe way is to prevent users writing to the drive they
are trying to fix.

If you want to jump out of a plane without a parachute, fine,

Only an idiot jumps out of a perfectly flying plane.

but I
will not take you up in my plane (ignoring the fact I don't have one).

With any recovery, the first second and third stage is to obtain the
existing files - then you can go

and play.

So that's what you do.
Little wonder that you don't trust your own program one single bit.


Michael
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