Recover of Data after error during copy

[MHOOO]

> Hi there,
I've got a slight Problem with my Hard Disk, since I can't access any of my Data.
Here's what happened:
My Hard Disk (Western Digital 2000JB (~200GB)) was installed on a Linux Machine, formatted as FAT32 (using Partition Magic 8.0). Yesterday then, while Copying like ~80GB Data through the LAN, Windows suddenly told me that I haven't got any permissions to write on the Disk - altough just a few seconds ago everything was fine...
I checked through some Folders and found some screwed-up Folder-Names (Folders which Names contained "weird" Characters). I figured already something wasn't alright, so I rebooted the system - and after that it couldn't be used anymore. After I build it into a Windows XP-System as a Slave, I found out that the partition-Format was "RAW" through Partition Magic 8.0.
Since I didn't exaclty suffer a power-failure, is there maybe a way to repair the Boot of the Partition?
If there isn't a chance to repair it, is there maybe a (free) software available that could use the available Partition-Boot-Data to recognize my data?

Thanks & bye bye~,
MHOOO

 

[mukinusa]

Fat32 while offering excellent cross system compatibility as far as operating systems go, has a lot of difficulty dealing with files larger than 4gigabytes. It quite often causes errors and can actually corrupt the whole file system at the FAT (file allocation table).

There are many pieces of software available; however the decent ones are around $150-$200 dollars. There are data recovery companies that can recover (file system corruption not hardware) for less than $300. With this you get the added security that the drive will be imaged before any work is performed on it (if a drive image isn’t made before any alterations to the data are made, the data recovery company isn’t very good and reputable) and no manipulations to the original data will be made.

I quite often make a drive image on my server > 3tb to manipulate and then make a hard copy to an archive tape before I place the fixed file system and recovered files back on a hard drive with corruption (after extensive testing of the hard drive in question of course). Then I keep the tape image for 1 year and the server image for 3 months, just in case there are issues.


Martin Dare

http://www.darepc.com

Affordable data recovery
Martin@darepc.com

 

[dbData]

MH000,

I'm not aware of anything free. A good extraction package is R-Studio. Last I checked, under $50.00. It's probably one of the best on the market.

There are many other extraction packages the will let you get the data yourself with paying a service company. You can find more info at

http://www.data-recovery-hub.com/guides/software/extraction.php.

Rick