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I've clumsily managed to delete some files on my DNS-323, with 1 drive that is NTFS formatted.
I removed the drive and hooked it up to a SATA - USB2 converter cable with own power source and tried reading the disk directly from my laptop. Vista finds the drive but it's raw, ie unformatted.
Is that correct behaviour? I guessed that since it was NTFS formatted a Windows Vista computer should be able to read the files on it.
One possible cause is that the converter doesn't work (the specs says it supports Vista 32-bit, I have 64-bit). But before investing in a proper USB2 hardcase I want to be sure that the disk can be read as formatted.
Searching the forum I've found several posts about EXT filesystem, but none about NTFS. And, yes, I should have backed up my data before doing things like delete.
My plan is to use a file-recovery program to scan the drive for deleted files, but it might not be possible?
Thanks for your help!
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It's the EXT2 linux file system so it won't be read by NTFS. however, there are drivers you can get that will read it and recovery programs but I am not as familiar with those. I think sysinternals has something that would do the recovery and they may or may not have the ext2 drivers.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhotoRec
Sounds like it only recovers photo's, but it will apparently undelete anything on most filesystems, including EXT2/EXT3.
Unfortunately, I have recently discovered that it (and many others) are not very succesful at recovering video/mp3 from HDD's which have been incorrectly formatted by the DNS-323 (the firmware bug whereby it correctly identifies the right HDD to format, even listing the HDD by model, but then proceeds to partition & format the wrong HDD).
Photorec is freeware and comes for linux, or windows - in linux it's part of the"testdisk" package, which can usually be installed via your package manager for most major distros.
Last edited by debro (2009-05-26 15:57:52)
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debro wrote:
Photorec is freeware and comes for linux, or windows - in linux it's part of the"testdisk" package, which can usually be installed via your package manager for most major distros.
You can also try http://www.data-recovery-software.net/L … very.shtml
this program is also freeware.
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Just a note to say what has happened the past month. I've managed to set upp Linux Recovery and scan my disk, but haven't had the time to learn the program yet (ie analyze data). Unfortunately today when I plugged in the external power cord (pertaining to the sata-usb kit) to my disk it got fried. Lovely smell of burnt was the last thing the disk gave me.
Even found the following (read ext2 formated disks from windows) which I haven't had the chance to test before my disk died http://www.fs-driver.org/
So I guess it's just to buy a new disk and start all over!
Thanks for your help though.
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Maybe you can use:
http://www.recuva.com/
Also there are programms availlable which can correct a corrupted file system.
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Thanks but my disk has died (short circuit).
From now on (as I've said many time before :-) I'll ALWAYS back up my data... if I find the time ;-)
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erleone wrote:
Thanks but my disk has died (short circuit).
I got a drive working again after this happened. A chip blew up on the drive controller (made quite a bang) - the black chip cover/resin/insulation - whatever it is called blew off. The drive was dead. I waited until I found the same drive model on ebay and kept asking sellers what the h/w revision of controller they had on their drive. After a while I obtained a drive with a matching controller and swapped them over - I got a working drive again and all the data was there. You could try this! Once I got the replacement it was only a few minutes work to bring the drive back to life.
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i have important files on an old NT system that have been deleted, i found this on a software site, can anybody tell me if it's good or is a virus
http://www.freeware-store.com/ntechnolo … -1297.html
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Yes, you have to make use of any recovery program to scan the drive for the deleted files. You can use free ntfs recovery program. The program makes use of the advanced search algorithms to scan and then to recover the deleted files. For more info please visit: http://www.freentfsrecovery.com
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