I need to recover a zipped file from a corrupted hard drive
The hard drive is NOT physically damaged, only inaccessible due to the current state: I accidentally, began ghost imaging and completed about 10% of the initial process before I canceled it. So now the system won't boot. I get a single flashing cursor
in the top left corner of the screen. If I connect the hard drive to a SATA-to-USB adapter and connect it to my Windows XP computer it will show that the 'Mass Storage Device' is found and installed. But I can't see the device in My Computer or Disk Management.
What I think needs to be done is have the device connected via USB mounted so that I can use a file recovery program to scan the drive for files. Does anyone have any ideas? I know I can complete the reimage and then try to recover the file but its about 2.6
GB in size and I have a feeling that no programs will be able to successfully recover the whole file. I would like to recover the file without reimaging the drive because chances of the files being overwritten are much greater if the image completes.
June 26th, 2015 5:48pm
There are plenty of recovery tools (eg. Pandora Recovery ) are available. You may try that to recover.
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June 26th, 2015 8:08pm
Most NTFS volumes have the $MFT at about 3GB from the start of the drive.
If your drive was over 30GB in size and Ghost got to 10%, then it may be that this $MFT table has been destroyed, which is bad news!
You can try a disk repair utility like TestDisk (usually comes with PhotoRec).
The drive would need to be visible in Disk Management even as a 'raw' device.
If not, you can try a bootable CD or USB drive that contains and will run TestDIsk
June 27th, 2015 6:44pm
There are plenty of file recovery tools to deal with your problem. But whatever tool you use, I would still make an image of the damaged drive just in case that revovery tools makes more damage than necessary. Use Zip Restore Toolbox from
http://www.zip.restoretools.com/
- Marked as answer by stefanospatras 9 hours 2 minutes ago
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July 18th, 2015 7:02am
There are plenty of file recovery tools to deal with your problem. But whatever tool you use, I would still make an image of the damaged drive just in case that revovery tools makes more damage than necessary. Use Zip Restore Toolbox from
http://www.zip.restoretools.com/
- Marked as answer by stefanospatras Saturday, July 18, 2015 10:22 PM
July 18th, 2015 11:00am