Need some help with data recovery. I recently attempted to copy everything from my ntfs usb hd to an ext4 partition, partly because the usb drive was full and partly so I could reformat it as ext4; we’re talking 150GB here. In the process, most of the files and subdirs got copied, but some did not, although as far as I can see everything that did not get copied is on the old, usb, drive (some subdirs are on both), with one exception. I had a folder named “hardware” where I kept drivers, software, manuals, etc. by manufacturer for computer devices and systems, appliances, equipment, etc. This did not get copied at all, apparently, and on the old drive there is now only one subdir: Asus. Bummer.
Any ideas how to see if the data is recoverable? I have WinXP running in VirtualBox, but not a bootable Windows install (that’s another story). So, I suppose a windows app for recovery of a networked drive would probably work; the usb is installed as a networked drive in VB. BTW, the usb drive is mounted in suse, 11.2, and I did use Konqueror to do the move. Or, preferably, a linux app that might do this. I don’t think anything has been written to the usb drive since.
Also, how to get the move to work better in the future, as I have another ntfs drive I would like to do this with.
avenuemax wrote:
> You can try Ubuntu recovery disk for recovering files.
WHAT? this is the openSUSE forum…i do not think we really have to
depend on the “recovery disk” of another distro to copy files from a
ntfs formatted usb drive…
@Bob, i’m not clear what you are doing…have you installed openSUSE
on a hardware machine and are running XP in a VM and then trying to
copy from the USB drive by using the XP in VM?
if so, stop that! if you have openSUSE running on hardware then just
shut down, unplug the USB, boot openSUSE, plug in the USB and see if
it won’t automount read only…and, then all you have to do is just
copy it to your ext4 partition…
now, i must admit that i ran into a young lady friday trying to use a
USB that had been “software locked” by some version of Redmond and her
Mac couldn’t touch it…i have NO idea what kind of proprietary magic
they are using now to lock in there users…maybe someone with more
understanding of Redmond file systems can get you home…without using
someone elses ‘recovery disk’…
(that is, openSUSE can mount and both read and write to ntfs on a USB
drive, just fine)
> now, i must admit that i ran into a young lady friday trying to use a
> USB that had been “software locked” by some version of Redmond and her
> Mac couldn’t touch it…i have NO idea what kind of proprietary magic
> they are using now to lock in there users…maybe someone with more
> understanding of Redmond file systems can get you home…without using
> someone elses ‘recovery disk’…
There is hardware encryption, done by the harddisk itself. Could be
that. I think that in that case you can not even read the disk.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” GM (Minas Tirith))
On Sun, 18 Jul 2010 14:25:29 +0000, DenverD wrote:
> now, i must admit that i ran into a young lady friday trying to use a
> USB that had been “software locked” by some version of Redmond and her
> Mac couldn’t touch it…i have NO idea what kind of proprietary magic
> they are using now to lock in there users…maybe someone with more
> understanding of Redmond file systems can get you home…without using
> someone elses ‘recovery disk’…
It’s probably similar to the flash drive I have - and it’s not
Microsoft’s doing. There’s a company called U3 that has encryption/
backup functionality that’s placed on an emulated CD drive in the device.