Recovery (was Re: serious WANT! Samsung SSD 64g drive ..)

Tony Scharf EMAIL HIDDEN
Tue Nov 13 02:23:37 CET 2007


I'm gonna let it go.  Life is to short.

This week my wife is helping me plan the studio space.  She is gifted
when it comes to layouts and design.  I think my new space will bring
with it new inspiration and new music.

Tony


On 11/12/07, Joost Schuttelaar <joost at joostschuttelaar.nl> wrote:
> On Nov 13, 2007, at 2:02 AM, Tony Scharf wrote:
>
> > This is exactly how I backed up the data drive.  I did an image of the
> > OS and a copy of the data.  Formatting the data drive instead of the
> > backup drive was the error.
>
> And the backup drive was the fresh, empty one...... arghhhhhh!!!
>
> Are your data drives still unmodified after formatting? If your RAID
> striped blocks on the same position on the disk some clever dd'ing
> might result in a recoverable drive.
>
> Say, a file is split into 5 blocks: A, B, C, D & E. If it's put on the
> disks as...
>
> 1: A C E
> 2: B D
>
> And the striper will simply keep alternating disks... then we could
> merge the two disks back into a full disk, and use standard recovery
> software on that.
>
> We could for instance figure out the blocksize of the stripes by
> playing back some blocks as if it were PCM wave data in an audio
> program, and see how big the gaps between audio fragments are.
>
> Then simply DD the two disks alternating block by block (shell
> script!) to a big fresh drive. And then see if recovery helps...
>
> Maybe too much effort :) the Zen of nothingness is also a fine one :)
>
> --
>
> Joost Schuttelaar
> The Hague, NL
>
>
>
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