| Author | Message | ||
     Marc Gelormini Username: marcgel Registered: N/A |
I accidentally imaged over one of our employees data partitions. Davory is finding his formatted Office files and adding them to the C: partition in a seperate Davory folder. The data is on D: and Davory restores without proper file names and when I try to open in Word, it can't read the data. This guy could get me fired for this. What am I doing wrong? It looks like the docs and excel files are still there somewhere. but somehow I can't get them fully recovered. do i need to wait till it finishes? | ||
| Marc Gelormini Username: marcgel Registered: N/A |
Also, this is a Windows 7 image and NTFS. I was using Altiris Deployment solution and instead of imaging just the C: partition is did both C: and D:. I think Davory has found the files i want to recover on D:, but why does it not restore them with the proper file names when i choose to restore by file type? Its numbering them 0001-0090 and some appear to be word docs and some excel. Please help! Thanks! | ||
| Alfons Kramer Username: admin3 Registered: 4-2004 |
Previously existing files will show up in different phases of decay. In its final phase there are only the file's data clusters (or worse only parts of it) that remain. In this situation it is just not possible to reconstruct the file's name or storage location. One needs just to know more about the existence conditions (living and dying) of files to understand this. | ||
| Marc Gelormini Username: marcgel Registered: N/A |
OK, but I'm noticing that when I reboot its strongly recommending that I do a disk consistency check. is it possible that if I let this run, the data will be recovered? After your post it looks like the only option. | ||
| Marc Gelormini Username: marcgel Registered: N/A |
In other words, the D: partition is asking to be checked. Well, luckily the user has a backup. I'll go ahead and let that run but I think it will erase everything. And I paid the $50 US for nothing. Oh well... Thanks anyhow. | ||
| Alfons Kramer Username: admin3 Registered: 4-2004 |
disk consistency checking is not likely recovering data. There is an evaluation version of Davory available. With that one can check, whether do-it-yourself-data-recovery will be successful. The next data loss will come for sure. Then you already have Davory. | ||
| Duncan Clarke Username: dac_retrodata Registered: N/A |
Marc, You should make an image of the drive in question before playing around. Then, if something goes horribly wrong, you have the opportunity to make another image to play around with. |