- Nov 9, 2017
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I need to recover from the following disaster.
I was condensing my photos getting ready for new backup solution when I overlooked my mounting points and wiped all copies of the disks.
It gets worse. I was doing recovery on the disks when movers showed up unexpectedly, disconnected the disks that were connected external to my desktop, some as large as 5 tb
Then packed everything in storage with piles and piles of other disks no labels etc. and it has sat that way for several years mixing several systems on various versions of Linux and windows from dos forward.
Ok so now I need to wade into this mess and try to find and recover my data.
I don’t want to risk having a disk defragging itself. I hope to build a new system for this task and then use it for a normal system when I am done.
I would like to
1)run recovery software on each disk looking for jpgs and excel files and compile a directory of recovered files.
2)I guess manually look through this recovered directory and sift out recognizable pictures into a new directory.
3)Then go through the sifted files to organize them for duplicated into a new directory structure.
4) go through the duplicates after going through all disks and save the least corrupt copy, and perhaps use some software to combine copies that are corrupt in different areas into a not corrupted copy
5) picture by picture rebuild my photos structure.
HERE IS MY QUESTION
What hardware should I build to make it so
1) my disks do not lose any more data
2) my disk reads for recovery are as fast as possible?
I would also like any advice on choices of OS, recovery, and reconstruction software
Thanks
Ps. Yes it is hard not to be depressed and slog through this.
I was condensing my photos getting ready for new backup solution when I overlooked my mounting points and wiped all copies of the disks.
It gets worse. I was doing recovery on the disks when movers showed up unexpectedly, disconnected the disks that were connected external to my desktop, some as large as 5 tb
Then packed everything in storage with piles and piles of other disks no labels etc. and it has sat that way for several years mixing several systems on various versions of Linux and windows from dos forward.
Ok so now I need to wade into this mess and try to find and recover my data.
I don’t want to risk having a disk defragging itself. I hope to build a new system for this task and then use it for a normal system when I am done.
I would like to
1)run recovery software on each disk looking for jpgs and excel files and compile a directory of recovered files.
2)I guess manually look through this recovered directory and sift out recognizable pictures into a new directory.
3)Then go through the sifted files to organize them for duplicated into a new directory structure.
4) go through the duplicates after going through all disks and save the least corrupt copy, and perhaps use some software to combine copies that are corrupt in different areas into a not corrupted copy
5) picture by picture rebuild my photos structure.
HERE IS MY QUESTION
What hardware should I build to make it so
1) my disks do not lose any more data
2) my disk reads for recovery are as fast as possible?
I would also like any advice on choices of OS, recovery, and reconstruction software
Thanks
Ps. Yes it is hard not to be depressed and slog through this.
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