Greetings, I have been working on recovering some data on an external usb HD. The drive was connected when active kill disk was run on it(but only for a few seconds… don’t ask 🙂 its a long story)
Anyway, I have used a few different data recovery tools and the partition is NOT coming up, however, I can run a utility to look at the drive sector by sector and I see the data there, even the ascii appears to be the files I want, after all the kill disk they tell me was only run for a few seconds.
Anyway, I have tried some signiture based tools but the starting point for these tools is… you guessed it select the partition. The only time I have used one of these tools previously was on a good functioning drive and the user just hit delete on the file, in that case it worked like majic. This problem is a bit out of my experience. I am not sure what would be the impact of creating a new partition using the same file system type (FAT32) then using the tool to search within that parition…
BTW I have used a knoppix disk to do a dd if=/dev/hdx of=/dev/hdy to backup the drive however, i would still like to know more about it, what I am doing that is, before I start beating on the poor hard drive. Any help is appreaciated
