Roopesh's Blog » Data Recovery http://www.roopeshsheth.com A random blog Fri, 30 Apr 2010 05:46:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Wow, Limited Data Loss http://www.roopeshsheth.com/2007/04/16/wow-limited-data-loss http://www.roopeshsheth.com/2007/04/16/wow-limited-data-loss#comments Tue, 17 Apr 2007 05:56:22 +0000 Roopesh Sheth http://www.roopeshsheth.com/2007/04/16/wow-limited-data-loss/ Well, it looks like my data loss has become limited to only a little bit of really insignificant pr0n.  After the last ditch effort this morning, I’ve found everything I was possibly concerned about.  And none of the fancy-schmancy data recovery software helped me a bit.  In the end it was good ol’ open source freeware that brought it all home.  Windows?  I hardly miss thee.

]]> http://www.roopeshsheth.com/2007/04/16/wow-limited-data-loss/feed 0 Found some data! http://www.roopeshsheth.com/2007/04/16/found-some-data http://www.roopeshsheth.com/2007/04/16/found-some-data#comments Mon, 16 Apr 2007 14:01:39 +0000 Roopesh Sheth http://www.roopeshsheth.com/2007/04/16/found-some-data/ Woo-hoo!!

I went and bought a new external enclosure yesterday, since mine was acting wierd.  I then deleted the partitions that Ubuntu had created and ran `testdisk` under linux.  It actually found my missing partition!  I then had to run `chkdsk /f` on the drive, and almost all my data came back to me!  I have my homemade videos, pictures, and documents.  I just haven’t found my pr0n.  And I really can’t complain about that, you know?

]]> http://www.roopeshsheth.com/2007/04/16/found-some-data/feed 0 Update 6: Still No Data http://www.roopeshsheth.com/2007/04/15/update-6-still-no-data http://www.roopeshsheth.com/2007/04/15/update-6-still-no-data#comments Sun, 15 Apr 2007 13:58:37 +0000 Roopesh Sheth http://www.roopeshsheth.com/2007/04/15/update-6-still-no-data/ None of those 23 partitions were useful.  Oddly enough, there were files that I think were really old being listed, but none of my more recent files.  So now I’m trying Data Recovery Wizard.  I don’t know if it’ll work, but I’m not losing much by trying.

]]> http://www.roopeshsheth.com/2007/04/15/update-6-still-no-data/feed 0 Update 5: Found 23 Partitions http://www.roopeshsheth.com/2007/04/14/update-5-found-23-partitions http://www.roopeshsheth.com/2007/04/14/update-5-found-23-partitions#comments Sat, 14 Apr 2007 13:21:51 +0000 Roopesh Sheth http://www.roopeshsheth.com/2007/04/14/update-5-found-23-partitions/ I’m so confused.  ARAX Disk Doctor found 23 deleted partitions.  Many of them are 1.40MB, and none of them are ~279GB, which is the one I deleted (most recently, I might add).  Looks like I can scan the deleted partitions and find out what can be recovered inside each one.  So that’ll take another couple of days, I’m sure.

]]> http://www.roopeshsheth.com/2007/04/14/update-5-found-23-partitions/feed 0 Update 4: More Partitions? http://www.roopeshsheth.com/2007/04/13/update-4-more-partitions http://www.roopeshsheth.com/2007/04/13/update-4-more-partitions#comments Fri, 13 Apr 2007 14:07:57 +0000 Roopesh Sheth http://www.roopeshsheth.com/2007/04/13/update-4-more-partitions/ Now it’s found 5 partitions.  I have no idea what it’s finding.

]]> http://www.roopeshsheth.com/2007/04/13/update-4-more-partitions/feed 0 Update 3: WTF? 4 Partitions?? http://www.roopeshsheth.com/2007/04/12/update-3-wtf-4-partitions http://www.roopeshsheth.com/2007/04/12/update-3-wtf-4-partitions#comments Fri, 13 Apr 2007 01:34:35 +0000 Roopesh Sheth http://www.roopeshsheth.com/2007/04/12/update-3-wtf-4-partitions/ ARAX Disk Doctor has now found 4 partitions on my HDD.  I have no idea what it’s finding at this point, and there’s still 24 hours to go.  I can’t wait to see the results.  I think.

]]> http://www.roopeshsheth.com/2007/04/12/update-3-wtf-4-partitions/feed 0 Update 2: Found another Partition! http://www.roopeshsheth.com/2007/04/12/update-2-found-another-partition http://www.roopeshsheth.com/2007/04/12/update-2-found-another-partition#comments Thu, 12 Apr 2007 13:30:32 +0000 Roopesh Sheth http://www.roopeshsheth.com/2007/04/12/update-2-found-another-partition/ Wow, ARAX Disk Doctor found another partition.  It isn’t giving me any details right now, but I don’t remember having two partitions on that drive.  Maybe it found the full drive partition?  I won’t know for another 30 hours.

]]> http://www.roopeshsheth.com/2007/04/12/update-2-found-another-partition/feed 0 Update 1: Recovering Data http://www.roopeshsheth.com/2007/04/11/update-1-recovering-data http://www.roopeshsheth.com/2007/04/11/update-1-recovering-data#comments Wed, 11 Apr 2007 21:47:39 +0000 Roopesh Sheth http://www.roopeshsheth.com/2007/04/11/update-1-recovering-data/ ARAX Disk Doctor is going to take almost 60 hours to scan my 300GB HDD.  The good news: It says it already found 1 deleted partition!  Unfortunately, it thinks it found an 80GB partition.  I had the whole HDD in a single partition before.  But, I probably only had ~80GB of data on there.  So I haven’t given up hope yet.

]]> http://www.roopeshsheth.com/2007/04/11/update-1-recovering-data/feed 0 I refuse to give up on my data http://www.roopeshsheth.com/2007/04/10/i-refuse-to-give-up-on-my-data http://www.roopeshsheth.com/2007/04/10/i-refuse-to-give-up-on-my-data#comments Tue, 10 Apr 2007 14:03:47 +0000 Roopesh Sheth http://www.roopeshsheth.com/2007/04/10/i-refuse-to-give-up-on-my-data/ I’ve installed demos of several different disc recovery applications trying to recover my lost data. So far only one, Arax Disk Doctor, has found a deleted partition. It’s still going through its deep scanning, but I have some hope now.

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