| Author | Message | ||
     Anonymous |
Hi, I would like to ask you please a couple of questions regarding your data recovery programs. In your programs, when doing a recovery based on the two FATS, providing there is some damage to BOTH, do you pick the one which appears less damaged and work with that ? OR do you use a smart algorithm that tries to combine BOTH FATs into a single FAT which will be better (include more valid chains) than each of them alone and work with that ? My second question deals with file recovery in the case where there is NO "directory file". I noticed that you do provide a method to recover files by type - (probably according to a unique header and footer), but my question is do you only provide a consecutive clusters recovery in that form, OR do you have a more sophisticated mechanism that remembers the cluster number where the header was discovered and tries to look in the "optimized" FAT to see if it does posses a valid clusters chain as well? I'd appreciate your answer, Thanks. | ||
| Stefan Fleischmann (Admin) |
> do you pick the one which appears less > damaged and work with that ? In the event that one copy of the FAT is damaged, the user can copy the healthy one over the corrupt one. > do you only provide a consecutive clusters > recovery in that form Yes. | ||
| Georg Michalski (Ac7sa) |
I recently had a failure on my USB Maxtor 80 GB hard drive that was formated FAT-32 on an XP-Pro System. It would not recognize the drive. I called Maxtor and they had me format it in NTFS format. When it did this it did not reformat the entire drive. I need to retrieve the data off this hard drive. Can I reformat this drive back to FAT-32 to retrieve the data? Is there any free software that I can download, as I survive only on Social Security, and my money is very very limited? Please help me!!! |