RE: Tool or Service to recover lost NTFS partition/data

["Beauford, Jason" <jbeauford () EightInOnePet com>]

Have you booted to another MASTER Drive and set this corrupt drive as
Slave to see if you can read the data that way?  That would be 1 thing.
Another would be too boot up KNOPPIX or any other LIVE linux CD and try
to read the data that way.  You boot to the CD, but you may be able to
read the drive's data.  Then slit the ZIP into multiple zips and burn to
CD.. 

Obviously it's much easier to boot from another HD though.

JMB

-----Original Message-----
From: Ismael Gonzalez [mailto:wortos () gmail com] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 8:52 AM
To: security-basics () securityfocus com
Subject: Tool or Service to recover lost NTFS partition/data


Hi list,

First, happy new year.

Second, I am in the urgent (read: desperate) need to recover a lost
partition from a NTFS physical drive. There has not been any format
since I figured out the mistake before that. The partition was lost
during the repair of a virus attack with the FIXMBR and FIXPART tools.

I tried some freeware products to no avail. Considering, seriously
considering, commercial products but I dont want to spend every dollar
looking for the one that will recover the whole partition/partition
table.

In particular, Im looking to recover a zip file more than a 1.5GB in
size.

Useful notes:

After partition was lost I have not repartitioned the drive and
therefore have not format it.

Thanks for your help.

-- 
Ismael Gonzalez
CEO / Consultant
Allied Technologies, Inc.