HARD DRIVE IMAGE FILE FORMAT

[turbinedave]

I used a disk image/recovery program to recover data from a failing
hard drive over a year ago, and I am finally able to restore the data
to a new drive. My problem is I dont remember the name of the
recovery program used.

The recovered file format is Drive_H.dat.

Does anyone know what recovery program uses that file format to write
the recovery file ? It was most likley a freeware utility.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Jaque

 

[Jonathan Harker]

I used a disk image/recovery program to recover data from a failing
hard drive over a year ago, and I am finally able to restore the data
to a new drive. My problem is I dont remember the name of the
recovery program used.

The recovered file format is Drive_H.dat.

Does anyone know what recovery program uses that file format to write
the recovery file ? It was most likley a freeware utility.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Jaque

Your problem is a classic case of PEBKAC.

Google it.

 

[Olórin]

Your problem is a classic case of PEBKAC.

Google it.

Isn't that the reason for ALL questions posted in these groups? *People*
("BKAC" in your so-humorous reply) don't know what to do about a computer
problem so they ask, to help fill the gap in their knowledge.

Still, I suppose the OP is hugely grateful for your reply.

 

[Olórin]

I used a disk image/recovery program to recover data from a failing
hard drive over a year ago, and I am finally able to restore the data
to a new drive. My problem is I dont remember the name of the
recovery program used.

The recovered file format is Drive_H.dat.

Does anyone know what recovery program uses that file format to write
the recovery file ? It was most likley a freeware utility.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Jaque

..dat is a format in widespread use. Try Googling for file extension sites,
look up .dat in several and see if any apps listed ring a bell. Or hit the
freeware sites (eg snapfiles.com) and browse there for anything that might
be familiar, maybe checking out "maker's website" links to see if any
particular apps use .dat files. Or just use Google with judicious choice of
search terms - eg exactly what sort of program was it? Disk imaging,
partition imaging, data recovery, etc. Did you make an image, or just hike
the data off somehow into one big file? I think you've got quite a bit of
legwork ahead of you!

Trying to retrace the steps that led you to this particular program in the
first place might help.

Is there no access to the computer you used for running it, or was it the
same one as had the failing drive?

 

[Jonathan Harker]

Isn't that the reason for ALL questions posted in these groups? *People*
("BKAC" in your so-humorous reply) don't know what to do about a computer
problem so they ask, to help fill the gap in their knowledge.

Still, I suppose the OP is hugely grateful for your reply.

Only a *special* type of person would forget what program was used to
create a system backup. *VERY special*

 

[Lil' Dave]

Only a *special* type of person would forget what program was used to
create a system backup. *VERY special*

Very special people tend to seek advice from a commonly used newsgroup that
doesn't specialize in that specific advice??!! Since its a Google group
thing, yes, I can see it. Real usenet, no. Another day of dealing with
"very special people" from Google groups again.

 

[Twayne]

Very special people tend to seek advice from a commonly used
newsgroup that doesn't specialize in that specific advice??!! Since
its a Google group thing, yes, I can see it. Real usenet, no. Another
day of dealing with "very special people" from Google groups
again.

Are you so myopic you can't look at a post and decide you either can't
or won't say anything useful and so move on to the next one?

"Special people" have attitudes like you do; not the OP. Nothing useful
to say? Say nothing.