| Author | Message | ||
     Kevin J. Menard, Jr. |
Is there anyway to currently edit any of these partitions? I would like to try to recover some files that I once had on a FAT32 partition, but then overwrote with an ext2 partition (I know the chances of recovery are slim, but I'd like to try  ). I guess at the byte level, this wouldn't matter much, but I didn't know if the whole concept of inodes and what not would alter the way WinHex deals with thing. Having a tool for data forensics for linux would be awesome PS -- Any plans to release a linux port? | ||
| Stefan Fleischmann (Admin) |
There is no special support for these partitions, but WinHex of course should allow to edit them via physical disk access. Linux port: sorry, not planned. But the name would be LinHex... | ||
| Kevin J. Menard, Jr. (Nirvdrum) |
What would it take to get special support? Just new template files? PS -- Too bad about there being no linux port :-/ | ||
| Stefan Fleischmann (Admin) |
By special support I meant WinHex being able to list clusters or sectors of a given file on such a partition and vice versa being able to tell which file resides on a currently displayed sector. The algorithms necessary for this would have to be implemented in the software itself. Support for editing certain data structures on such partitions (like directory entries in FAT) would just require new templates, that's correct. However, if you want to recover files that were stored with FAT32 file system logic, you do not need any support for other partition types. Existing Ext2 data structures on the disk certainly would not help locating former FAT32 files. The new format does know nothing about these files. For data recovery I suggest you read my instructions here and here. | ||
| Kevin J. Menard, Jr. (Nirvdrum) |
That first link does not work. And I'm sorry. I completely forgot what I was trying to do at first, and moved more to just being able to recover data from and ext2 partition. Thanks for your reply. | ||
| Stefan Fleischmann (Admin) |
Link fixed now! | ||
| Charles Burns |
While I do not know of any tools like Winhex for accessing disks, you can use something like 'dd' to read the raw data to a fine and then sift through that with a hex editor or something--perhaps even open that file with Winhex running under WINE or put the file on a Windows partition if you have any of those around, and use Winhex to recover that data. If you are not already aware, 'dd' can move data from anything to anything. Read "man dd" (of course) and try something like "dd if=/dev/sda of=/mydrive" then chop off whatever data is used by the Linux partitions. | ||
| Stefan Fleischmann (Admin) |
Ext2/Ext3 support added with v11.8. Also compatibility with Linux and Wine improved. | ||
| Howard Atherton Username: howard Registered: 4-2005 |
XFS Support Would there be any plan to support XFS file system? I am encountering more of these particularly in RAID 5 Servers. Thank you | ||
| Stefan Fleischmann Username: admin Registered: 1-2001 |
It's already on the To Do list, however, in the lower half of 500 items. | ||
| Ross Johnson Username: ross_winpro_net Registered: N/A |
regarding XFS with WinHex: Howard, how have you been proccessing these jobs? For example: 1. Are you able to use WinHex to repair, rebuild and access a RAID-5 (as a physical HD) and then use recovery by type? 2. Are you able to use WinHex to repair, rebuild a RAID-5, then use other tools to access the RAID-5 at the File System level? Thank you, Ross@WinPro.net | ||
| Ross Johnson Username: ross_winpro_net Registered: N/A |
Does anyone have a WinHex template for an XFS Superblock? Thank you, Ross@WinPro.net |