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Jan,
I will try your program. It sounds like it is exactly what I am looking
for.
Thank you,
Brad
"Jan van Wijk" <jvw.no.spam@dfsee.com> wrote in message
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> Hi Brad,
>
> On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 04:48:19 UTC, "Brad O" <replyto@group.only> wrote:
>
>> I do not to get these files re-established on the drive that they are on,
>> in
>> fact, I believe that I cannot do that. What I am looking for is a way to
>> salvage them to another drive.
>
> That is the best method in most file-recovery cases anyway ...
>
>>The software that I have been able to get my
>> hands on or read about so far seems to either try to recover a partition
>> or
>> re-establish the files to the partition that they are already on. The
>> partition is bad and does not seem to be recoverable as a bootable
>> partition. So, I need a way to access my files from Windows, not as that
>> last option suggested "within" Windows. These differences may seem like
>> sematics, but they are much more than that. To simply see my files in a
>> DOS
>> window and be able to do nothing with them does not help me.
>
> OK, makes sense ...
>
>>However, having full access to them, enough to be able to move them
> to
>>another drive, is what I am looking for.
>
> Hmm, apart from mis-interpreting your "full access" perhaps, I think
> there
> are ways to copy the files over to a different filesystem
> (partition/disk).
> By simply recreating the file theres, and copy over the data.
>
> This may fail for very special files, with critical
> security-attributes or compressed
> ones but will work fine for most of the data-files used with
> applications.
>
> And I guess these are what matter most ...
>
>> Does anybody have any suggestions for that? Or a way to figure out what
>> to
>> do? I am usually pretty good at tracking down how to figure this stuff
>> out,
>> but I seem to be at a complete loss.
>
> You can use my DFSee utility to locate and copy files from many
> filesystems, including NTFS. Since there is a DOS, OS/2, Windows
> as well as a Linux version in the same package, it should be possible
> to find a setup where you have a destination filesystem to store the
> recovered files.
>
> In your situation, I would think having an operational Windows system
> and mount the 'bad' disk in that would be the best option.
>
> You could then recover selected files from the damaged/inaccessible
> partition to another NTFS partition.
>
>
> That said, I must warn you that DFSee is NOT an easy to use GUI
> program,
> it is text-based, and the file-recovery is based on finding all files
> matching
> a certain filename-mask, and then recovering from that list using a
> more
> powerfull wild-card mechanism. Paths are retained as much as possible.
>
> In general, this works fine to recover data-files, but is almost
> useless
> if you need to recover a bootable Windows system itself.
> (But you could just re-install that, right ?
>
> To get an idea, you can download the package which will allow
> at least 30 days as a trial period (not crippled in any other way).
>
> Check out the information on FILEFIND in DFSNTFS.TXT that is in
> the package, and RECOVER in DFSCMDS.TXT.
>
> These commands are also made accessible through the
> menu-system, in a sequence like:
>
> File -> Open Partition to work with -> ... select bad partition ...
> Mode=NTFS -> Search normal files => list
> Mode=NTFS -> Recover files from list ...
>
> The last one will present you with a file-dialog to select a
> destination (on any accessible drive-letter) for the
> files to be recovered, and it will prompt you for a
> wildcard selection as well ...
>
>
> For specific questions, you can always constact:
>
> support@dfsee.com
>
> The complete package is in the download at:
>
>
http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee.htm#download
>
>
> I am sure there will be more programs that are able to do this, but if
> you
> are not afraid of a text-mode program DFSee could be of help
>
> Regards, JvW
>
> --
> Jan van Wijk; Author of DFSee:
http://www.dfsee.com