In-place file recovery?

[yaugin]

One of my partitions was corrupted by a botched Acronis operation. The
partition is now unreadable, with CHKDSK recognizing it as NTFS but
then returns an error and aborts. But most of the data can still be
found using a recovery program like GetDataBack. But I can't copy over
the data because the damaged partition is bigger than my remaining HD
space. Are there any tools that can perform an in-place recovery of
the partition?

To note, the partition is still visible, just unreadable -- there are
a bunch of utilities for recovering "lost" partitions but that's not
the case here, the partition is accessible but unreadable due to some
error in the file system.

 

[mscotgrove]

One of my partitions was corrupted by a botched Acronis operation. The
partition is now unreadable, with CHKDSK recognizing it as NTFS but
then returns an error and aborts. But most of the data can still be
found using a recovery program like GetDataBack. But I can't copy over
the data because the damaged partition is bigger than my remaining HD
space. Are there any tools that can perform an in-place recovery of
the partition?

To note, the partition is still visible, just unreadable -- there are
a bunch of utilities for recovering "lost" partitions but that's not
the case here, the partition is accessible but unreadable due to some
error in the file system.

Do not even think about it.

Your data is on an unstable disk and any attempt to recover in place
could overwrite your files permentantly.

If you value your files, set up a data recovery program on a different
PC, and access your problem CD as a slave drive. Once you are 110%
sure that you have all your data files intact, then you can start
making changes to your corrupted drive.

On my own recovery program, www.cnwrecovery.com I lock out the
ability to work on the C: drive to try and protect users.

Michael

 

[Arno Wagner]

Do not even think about it.

Your data is on an unstable disk and any attempt to recover in place
could overwrite your files permentantly.

If you value your files, set up a data recovery program on a different
PC, and access your problem CD as a slave drive. Once you are 110%
sure that you have all your data files intact, then you can start
making changes to your corrupted drive.

This is very good advice. In-place recovery is messy and if
you do something wrong, does increase the damage. Don't do it.

On my own recovery program, www.cnwrecovery.com I lock out the
ability to work on the C: drive to try and protect users.

Commendable. For some reason many people do not get how vulnerable
their data is.

Arno

 

[Folkert Rienstra]

Do not even think about it.

Your data is on an unstable disk and any attempt to recover in place
could overwrite your files *permentantly*.

If you value your files, set up a data recovery program on a different
PC, and access your problem *CD* as a slave drive. Once you are 110%
sure that you have all your data files *intact*, then you can start
making changes to your corrupted drive.

Ooh, that made soo much sense.

On my own recovery program, www.cnwrecovery.com I lock out the
ability to work on the C: drive to try and protect users.

Nice to know that you don't trust your own program one single bit.

 

[mscotgrove]

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Ooh, that made soo much sense.


Nice to know that you don't trust your own program one single bit.






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I stick by my statement

Drives can fail, or be corrupted in so many different ways that the
only generic safe way is to prevent users writing to the drive they
are trying to fix.

If you want to jump out of a plane without a parachute, fine, but I
will not take you up in my plane (ignoring the fact I don't have one).

With any recovery, the first second and third stage is to obtain the
existing files - then you can go and play.

Michael

 

[yaugin]

Do not even think about it.

Your data is on an unstable disk and any attempt to recover in place
could overwrite your files permentantly.

Well, I'm willing to take the risk, since I currently don't have the
ability to back up that amount of storage. My choices are "risk" or
"lose".

If you value your files, set up a data recovery program on a different
PC, and access your problem CD as a slave drive.

Don't need to. My system partition is fine.

Once you are 110%
sure that you have all your data files intact, then you can start
making changes to your corrupted drive.

The way that reads to me is "As soon as your problem is fixed, you can
start fixing your problem."

On my own recovery program,www.cnwrecovery.com I lock out the
ability to work on the C: drive to try and protect users.

Given that C is my remaining healthy partition, that would only send
me further up sh*t creek. I wouldn't be able to backup anything. I
appreciate the standard cautions about data recovery, but I know the
risks. I came here specifically to find out if there are programs that
can perform in-place recovery -- which, technically, would not pose
any additional risk to overwriting recoverable data since it wouldn't
touch recoverable data at all. The data that would be at risk would be
the same data that the program would be unable to recover anyway
(granted, maybe some other program would be able to, but I'm not going
to fuss over that since I accept the risks). This is what in-place
means; you don't move the data. If you're talking about the standard
approach of copying or moving the recovered data, in this case to some
other region of the partition, then of course that is just careless.
That's not what I'm asking for and it's not "in-place".

 

[Egil Solberg]

Well, I'm willing to take the risk, since I currently don't have the
ability to back up that amount of storage. My choices are "risk" or
"lose".

If your data is worth that little to you, you might just want to wipe your
drive and start fresh.
I can't think of any reason that a spare pc at least can't be borrowed.
What you are saying is not logical, hence the answers you get.

 

[Keith Wilby]

One of my partitions was corrupted by a botched Acronis operation.

What operation was this? Did you try to restore a corrupt image?

 

[Folkert Rienstra]

I stick by my statement

Drives can fail, or be corrupted in so many different ways that the
only generic safe way is to prevent users writing to the drive they
are trying to fix.

If you want to jump out of a plane without a parachute, fine,

Only an idiot jumps out of a perfectly flying plane.

but I
will not take you up in my plane (ignoring the fact I don't have one).

With any recovery, the first second and third stage is to obtain the
existing files - then you can go

and play.

So that's what you do.
Little wonder that you don't trust your own program one single bit.