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

[Tony Scharf]

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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