Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2017 11:48:43 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: "Frank Leonhardt (m)" <frank2@fjl.co.uk> Cc: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How to recover data from dead hard drive. Message-ID: <20171019114843.895c0818.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <7261CCB9-DE3D-46D0-9829-5F8BEC43E8BE@fjl.co.uk> References: <59DBA387.4050108@gmail.com> <20171009191435.145c9dd2.freebsd@edvax.de> <72772933-C642-43DB-AFD6-6B5D40EEF39E@fjl.co.uk> <BN6PR2001MB1730D947FADA3A9DC9A370A480490@BN6PR2001MB1730.namprd20.prod.outlook.com> <59E21214.4020509@gmail.com> <7261CCB9-DE3D-46D0-9829-5F8BEC43E8BE@fjl.co.uk>
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On Thu, 19 Oct 2017 09:57:53 +0100, Frank Leonhardt (m) wrote: > The worst thing is when someone plugs a drive in and > Windoze pops up a message offering to repair it. That's true. In such cases, the MFT or FAT (depending on file system) can seriously get messed up, and this causes a long and complicated recovery session - often worse that what you could achieve with not "repairing" it. I've had that case a few times where "important business data" had to be rescued. With one "repaired" USB stick, it required a few days (!) just to get the image, and lots of hours for getting the data back and _sorting_ it (as any directory information already had been "repaired" into oblivion. ;-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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