Are there any data recovery forums? I have found one at
hddgurus.com, but that seems more hardware oriented,
people wanting donor parts or firmware to resurrect zapped
drives etc. Or else "my drive is making weird noises!"
I am more interested in corrupt filesystems, such as a
virus screwing a MBR, FAT, MFT, rootdir...

On Nov 4, 12:39*pm, Anne Onime <anonym...@rip.ax.lt> wrote:
> Are there any data recovery forums? I have found one at
> hddgurus.com, but that seems more hardware oriented,
> people wanting donor parts or firmware to resurrect zapped
> drives etc. Or else "my drive is making weird noises!"
> I am more interested in corrupt filesystems, such as a
> virus screwing a MBR, FAT, MFT, rootdir...

I am not aware of any

Michael
www.cnwrecovery.com

Anne Onime wrote:

> Are there any data recovery forums?

This one covers that subject.

> I have found one at hddgurus.com, but that seems more hardware
> oriented, people wanting donor parts or firmware to resurrect
> zapped drives etc. Or else "my drive is making weird noises!"

Thats often the reason people want to do data recovery when they dont have full backups.

> I am more interested in corrupt filesystems, such
> as a virus screwing a MBR, FAT, MFT, rootdir...

Those do get covered here.

On Thu, 4 Nov 2010 13:39:47 +0100 (CET), Anne Onime
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>Are there any data recovery forums? I have found one at
>hddgurus.com, but that seems more hardware oriented,
>people wanting donor parts or firmware to resurrect zapped
>drives etc. Or else "my drive is making weird noises!"
>I am more interested in corrupt filesystems, such as a
>virus screwing a MBR, FAT, MFT, rootdir...

The HDD Guru forums do answer questions regarding file system
corruption, but they only offer general advice, such as which software
to throw at the problem. Apart from a few individuals, I have found
them to be a selfish, arrogant bunch who use the forum as a referral
service, or a fishing pond for hapless clients.

- Franc Zabkar
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Anne Onime <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> Are there any data recovery forums? I have found one at
> hddgurus.com, but that seems more hardware oriented,
> people wanting donor parts or firmware to resurrect zapped
> drives etc. Or else "my drive is making weird noises!"
> I am more interested in corrupt filesystems, such as a
> virus screwing a MBR, FAT, MFT, rootdir...

You can try your luck here. Resulst in the past have ranged
from excellent advice to discussions drifting in unrelated
directions and no useful advice at all. For a virus, you can
also try the various AV vendor advisory sites or if it has
a CVE, you can try that.

Arno
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