Re: Re: Recovery of CHKDSKed NTFS HD lost data

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From: Richard Urban (richardurbanREMOVETHIS_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 10/27/04 

Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 06:32:44 -0400

You lost something as important as your wedding photo's and videos, and you
are worrying if recovery software is FREE?

Hell man, get what you need - even if you have to pony up a couple of
hundred bucks. 

-- 
Regards:
Richard Urban
aka  Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)
<R.Fodor> wrote in message 
news:ciiun0lh3cltqcj0q03o71odgl67jvmh6u@4ax.com...
> Thanks, Jeffrey, I'll look into Restorer2000.  Is it free, by chance?
>
> I was defragging after each file because the drive is already packed
> with other stuff, so the free space was only about 5GB.  As for the
> backup, I was just about to do that when this happened.  Grrrr!!  Any
> suggestions as to the video tools (and how to use them)?  As for the
> laptop, yeah, the drive has had lots and LOTS of stuff written to it,
> so I doubt that anything could be pulled from the laptop.
>
> What pisses me off ROYALLY is that a microsoft tool (is that an
> oxymoron?) (I should have known better: time for Linux, I think!)
> meant to help just went ahead and DELETED my data, at least in the
> MFT.  So, now that there's nothing pointing to the relevant sectors, I
> think I'm royally screwed!  THANK YOU BILL GATES - WOULD YOU LIKE SOME
> MORE OF MY MONEY?  My potential, his passion!  My A$$!
>
> What the hell happened to all this supposed NTFS safety?
>
> Thx again.
>
>
>
> On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 15:20:56 +0900, "jeffrey" <jeffrey@nospam.com>
> wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>Don`t know if this will work since the chkdsk deleted some files, but you
>>can try Restorer2000.  It work on my HDD when the partition tables were
>>screwed up.  Also, you don`t really need to defrag after each file was
>>copied over, just copy them all over then do a complete defrag, that might
>>have helped cause this problem.  Second thing, even though you backed them
>>up on that drive, its always best to have a second backup somewhere,
>>especially if it is as important as wedding pics and vids.  Depending on 
>>the
>>movie format, there are tools out there that maybe able to restore or fix
>>the format so you can view it again.  On the laptop that you previous 
>>copied
>>them too, did you add any new data to the drive?  you might be able to 
>>also
>>pull the file off the laptop, since the files are really deleted, just 
>>their
>>entries in the FAT table is removed, untill you save something to the 
>>drive,
>>the previously deleted data is still there till that space is occupied. 
>>The
>>Restorer2000 may be able to see and recover any deleted files on your
>>laptop.
>>
>>Jeff
>>
>><R.Fodor> wrote in message
>>news:lpbun09f1v1650eh92brdh1iji2cd5r4av@4ax.com...
>>> PLEASE!  HELP!!!!  Before my wife murders me!
>>>
>>> BACKGROUND:
>>> Compaq Presario 2701US laptop
>>> Windows XP Pro
>>> Que 120GB external firewire HD, partitioned into two logical drives,
>>> 80GB and 40GB
>>> Write caching on the external drive (both partitions) turned off (or
>>> so the external HD's device manager properties panel claims; I have a
>>> feeling that it turns on automatically each time I turn on the
>>> external HD {the panel always shows that it's turned off}, but I'm not
>>> positive.)
>>>
>>> PREPARATION:
>>> I took my digital wedding movies and transferred them to my main
>>> laptop HD.  I then copied them to my Que external firewire drive's
>>> first partition (80GB) for storage, one by one, doing a defrag with
>>> Diskeeper v7.0.043 after each copy to ensure the drive was properly
>>> defragged. No problems with any of this.  After copying the last file,
>>> I did a CHKDSK on the partition to ensure all was well, and it was,
>>> followed by another defrag just to be sure.  All files copied fine and
>>> were usable without problem after the last defrag.
>>>
>>> PROBLEM:
>>> When I went back to transfer the movies to CDs as a backup, without
>>> having used the drive in the interim, one of the movies (of course it
>>> was the one with the "I do") wouldn't launch in any movie viewer.  I
>>> did a CHKDSK /F in a DOS box on the partition, and the screen whizzed
>>> by with several "deleting orphan file segment" messages.  After the
>>> CHKDSK was finished and purportedly "corrected" the errors (and how
>>> they got there, I don't know), my wedding movies (now no longer on the
>>> laptop internal drive or the camera) were ALL GONE!
>>>
>>> CHKDSK corrected problems simply by deleting my data!
>>>
>>> (This is why I hate NTFS, but FAT32 isn't much better.  This is not
>>> the first time a chkdsk on this external drive has conveniently just
>>> flat out "deleted" data!)
>>>
>>> I assume that the data is still there on the drive somewhere but that
>>> there's no entry in the MFT for the files; hence,"no can find."
>>>
>>> PLEASE!  HELP!!!!  What utility or other tools can I use to get my
>>> wedding movies back?  (And, please, don't tell my wife in the
>>> interim.)  Isn't there something that can examine the drive, find the
>>> movie files and recover them to another drive?  I have been careful
>>> not to write anything else to the drive, so, hopefully, they are
>>> retreivable.  PLEASE!  HELP!!!!!
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>

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