Talk:Data recovery
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My experience:
1) A few years ago, i was installing Windows XP on a 10 GB HDD. MSDOS flipped C and D, so i whiped out my 60 GB HDD. GetDataBack for FAT recovered about 90% of the files. The rest were *doh* overwritten by the installation proces. GetDataBack recovered the file names, but didn't recover (all) directory names.
2) Backing up data using Linux 2.4.x and NTFS 5.1 was a pain. Cp crashed a lot, and it was mad slow. This simply failed because we weren't looking on the screen every 15 minutes.
3) A friend of mine's IBM Deskstar crashed once. It contained partly his data as well as mine. We were in the process of changing NTFS to Ext2FS. The harddisk crashed on BIOS. Luckily, my most sensitive data was on another disk, but he's still paralized because of this tragic accident :(
4) Somehow, i never had any problems on *NIX regarding data recovery. Except for a wrong extention a tarball had after i downloaded it. Iirc, i renamed the file, did 'file' on it, and then renamed it to the proper extention.
I'm interested in hearing your experience --dpi
Good work creating this, dpi. Webfork
- Thank you, although i'm not content with it yet. I'll review it next time -- dpi
Would it be good to have something in the intro of this page to explain why and how data gets lost or the main reasons why data needs to be recovered? - ABliss
- Good point. I just thought about it and some of the primary reasons include:
- * Broken hardware (harddisk, cdrom, floppy) -- why they become broken can also be described,
- * Stupid deletion or typo by the user,
- * Crackers, viruses, trojans, worms,
- and most importantly, the creme de la creme of Ignorance:
- * Lack of proper backups -- with an explanation on how to do this or a link to backup or backup!!!
- Another one is "Lost password". Imagine you lost the password of your encrypted partition. Any other suggestions?
