RE: Tool or Service to recover lost NTFS partition/data

From: Beauford, Jason (jbeauford_at_EightInOnePet.com)
Date: 01/05/05

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To: "Ismael Gonzalez" <wortos@gmail.com>, <security-basics@securityfocus.com>

    Have you booted to another MASTER Drive and set this corrupt drive as
    Slave to see if you can read the data that way? That would be 1 thing.
    Another would be too boot up KNOPPIX or any other LIVE linux CD and try
    to read the data that way. You boot to the CD, but you may be able to
    read the drive's data. Then slit the ZIP into multiple zips and burn to
    CD..

    Obviously it's much easier to boot from another HD though.

    JMB

    -----Original Message-----
    From: Ismael Gonzalez [mailto:wortos@gmail.com]
    Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 8:52 AM
    To: security-basics@securityfocus.com
    Subject: Tool or Service to recover lost NTFS partition/data

    Hi list,

    First, happy new year.

    Second, I am in the urgent (read: desperate) need to recover a lost
    partition from a NTFS physical drive. There has not been any format
    since I figured out the mistake before that. The partition was lost
    during the repair of a virus attack with the FIXMBR and FIXPART tools.

    I tried some freeware products to no avail. Considering, seriously
    considering, commercial products but I dont want to spend every dollar
    looking for the one that will recover the whole partition/partition
    table.

    In particular, Im looking to recover a zip file more than a 1.5GB in
    size.

    Useful notes:

    After partition was lost I have not repartitioned the drive and
    therefore have not format it.

    Thanks for your help. 

    -- 
Ismael Gonzalez
CEO / Consultant
Allied Technologies, Inc.
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