[nycbug-talk] Fw: Fw: Recovering partition table and ntfs filesystem(intact) (on and off-topic)

[Trish Lynch]

After totally panicking, and crying, and realizing it wasn'tt just commercial mp3's but the only copy I have of my own album among others (masters, etc), I found a nifty tool for 40 bucks called 'partition table doctor' which rebuilt my partition table first time around, and even found ones 3 and 4 generations old!

Scary.

What sucks is that I had a backup of all the until the drive I was rebuilding crashed, and then I ended up deleting the partition table off the USB drive instead *sigh*.

I blame it on the double narcotics I was on because of the epidural, and from now on before re-install, I'll unplug the USB drive

Too bad I didn't find an open source tool I trusted immediately, but the data was too important :( 

-Trish
------Original Message------
From: Dru
To: Trish Lynch
Cc: talk at lists.nycbug.org
Sent: Sep 3, 2006 9:15 AM
Subject: Re: [nycbug-talk] Fw: Recovering partition table and ntfs filesystem(intact) (on and off-topic)



On Sun, 3 Sep 2006, Trish Lynch wrote:

> Sent to wrong address....
> ------Original Message------
> To: talk at nycbug.org
> Sent: Sep 2, 2006 10:45 PM
> Subject: Recovering partition table and ntfs filesystem (intact) (on and off-topic)
>
> I accidentally deleted the partition table of the wrong drive that contains 15,000 dollars worth of encoded cds that have been lost in moves or opacked in boxes and such and would take more then that type of investment to re-encode.
> I lost the backup of it last week in a machine crash, and I was attempting to rebuild it when I deleted the wrong disk partition table (I just had a back surgery, teach me to dfo stuff on drugs)
>
> Is there any way to recover the partition table and the intact ntfs partition on there? Or do I have to send it out to be recovered? (Which is more than I can afford right now, I cannot believe I lost all my music *grrrrr*))


If this was UFS (I'm assuming it is NTFS....) this is a lifesaver:

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/sysutils/scan_ffs/pkg-descr

Not sure if this one will be useful in your case:

http://www.freshports.org/sysutils/magicrescue/

Dru


-- 
Trish Lynch