Re: Forensic help?

[Ragone_Andrew <kc2lto () gmail com>]

> I recently destroyed my file structure due to mistakenly writing a 
> partition table to the wrong hard disk drive on my machine while 
> installing an experimental version of OS X. The saving factor is that 
> the partition that may have formatted was only 20GB out of 200GB and 
> the rest was unallocated free space. I have installed a temporary 
> instance of WinXP to use data recovery software and recover the 
> majority of files from the drive (it is installed on the non-corrupted 
> drive). I ran a scan with R-Studio's awesome NTFS recovery tool and can 
> only find some of my recognized files here and there with system files 
> in between. The folders are present as something such as 
> $$$Folder1546$$ but there is absolutly no file system structure 
> present. (some is on different "found" under different cluster settings, 
> etc. using the IntelligiScan). Is there a way to reconstruct the file system 
> with another 
> utility using a data forensics linux livecd or other utility? I REALLY 
> need to get this data recovered and would like to learn how on my own 
> as first resort. 
>  I have used iRecover which restructed the file system almost perfectly 
> but it freezes during the recover (or seems to hang). Are there any other 
> choices out there? It seems none of the data was truely formatted ... 
>  -Andrew
>  
>
> On 9/12/05, Red Leg <redleg18 () gmail com> wrote: 
> > On 9/11/05 8:21 PM, "Paul Schmehl" <pauls () utdallas edu > wrote:
> >
> >
> > > Download the knoppix std distro and burn it to a cd. Use dcfldd for 
> > drive
> > > imaging and the forensics tools for recovery of erased files and the 
> > like.
> > >
> >
> > Paul.
> >
> > Does dcfldd allow me to mirror the disk in such a manner as to include 
> > deleted files? I can not swap drives. I need to obtain an image with 
> > which I
> > can "undelete" files that were conventionally erased.
> >
> > Will dcfldd provide such an image?
> >
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> >
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