| Author | Message | ||
     Kerry Ward Username: jojo Registered: N/A |
Hello I am a pc user only and not an expert ..lol!! I am trying to recover some pictures and documents from a 16GB JOGR USB drive. I was seeing the drive, but the error message was "drive unformatted". After reading some of the posts, I tried Davory and WinHex. Davory could not find partitions??, and I created a few copies of the Disk image using WinHex on my hard drive, which shows 1.98Gb of data, but cannot access it. I have sent the drive to a local professional but they said that it must have been written over and they are only getting garbage. They have not returned the drive as yet. In trying free programs to open image, Active File recovery for Windows gave the following error.."bad signature in sector 0 on raw image" Is this a hopeless case? Is the drive damaged? Do I risk reformatting and using again? | ||
| Alfons Kramer Username: admin3 Registered: 4-2004 |
"bad signature in sector 0 on raw image" translated means: There is no (Master) boot record. This means there is no partition table. This means there are no existing partitions. Without partitions, there is only one way remaining: recover files by type (aka carving). Davory and WinHex are capable of this. If this fails too, the professional might be right. If you keep your disk image, there is no risk in reformatting that drive. If the disk image can be compressed (zipped) at a very high degree, it is probably overwritten with a simple pattern. In this case only a very special lab could help. By the way, the characteristics of a Hex Editor (like WinHex) is to be able to access any file in any format. | ||
| Kerry Ward Username: jojo Registered: N/A |
Thanks Alfonz I only tried the freedownload. I'll let you know what happens when I get the drive. |