How to recover lost files after you accidentally wipe your hard drive. By Shawn Hermans After the overwhelming feeling of dread passed, I started to look into file recovery options. I demoed a variety of commercial products to see if any of them could find my lost files or partitions. Nothing seemed to work. Finally, I discovered TestDisk and PhotoRec, and was able to use the latter to recover my lost files. TestDisk can recover lost partitions of virtually any filesystem. The recovery I began my attempt at recovery by using TestDisk run from a Knoppix CD. PhotoRec recovers files by finding deleted files and copying them to disk. Another important thing to remember is that PhotoRec will most likely recover a lot of files.
Possible setups for recovery include: Recover the files to a separate hard drive.Recover the files to a networked storage drive.Recover the files to a separate partition on the same hard drive.Image the hard drive using a tool like ddrescue and recover files using only one partition. Recovery steps Next, you select the partition type.
DataRecovery. Deleted or lost files can sometimes be recovered from failed or formatted drives and partitions, CD-ROMs and memory cards using the free/libre software available in the Ubuntu repositories. The data is recoverable because the information is not immediately removed from the disk. Follow these steps to recover lost data. You should NOT write to the failed device, as it can worsen a hardware failure, and overwrite existant data in case of lost files . Shut down the affected machine as soon as possible, and restart it from a LiveCD or LiveUSB. Be certain that the "live" cd does not automatically mount any partition or swap space.
Guidelines The following software will passively try to recover your data from failed or failing hardware. If your device is damaged, it is advisable to image the device and work on the image file for data recovery. To recover data from a failed device, you will need another device of equal or greater storage onto which to save your data. Lost Partition GNU Parted Gpart. Version 10.10 | Ubuntu Rescue Remix.
Version 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) of the very best Free-Libre Open-Source data recovery software toolkit based on Ubuntu is out. Same toolkit - updated infrastructure. This release of Ubuntu-Rescue-Remix features a full command-line environment with up-to-date versions of the most powerful free/libre open-source data recovery software including GNU ddrescue, Photorec, The Sleuth Kit and Gnu-fdisk. *** Download the live CD/USB *** The live Remix provides a full shell environment. 2bde4144c02178bdb3f19fb686616783 ubuntu-rescue-remix-10-10.iso See this link for details about how to burn the ISO image to make a bootable cd.
This iso image is also compatible with the excellent USB Startup Disk Creator that is included with Ubuntu since 9.04 (System - Administration - USB Startup Disk Creator). PendriveLinux also provides an excellent way for Windows users to put Ubuntu-Rescue-Remix on a stick. *** Metapackage *** -Andrew. System Requirements. System Requirements DiskWarrior 4 supports any locally connected Mac OS Standard (HFS) or Mac OS Extended (HFS Plus) disk including Fusion Drives, RAID volumes, journaled disks, case-sensitive disks, FileVaults, Time Machine backups and iPods. Startup RequirementsDiskWarrior now ships on DVD instead of CD. Starting up from the DiskWarrior DVD requires a PowerPC G4 867 MHz Mac or better (such as a PowerPC G5 or Intel Mac) with built-in DVD drive and a minimum 512 MB RAM. The computer must also have the latest firmware updates installed.
Click here to learn how to repair the directory of a disk in a Mac model that cannot be started from the DiskWarrior DVD. Note: The current DiskWarrior DVD cannot start up the MacBook Pros introduced since June 11, 2012. Installation RequirementsTo install, you must be started from OS X 10.3.9 through 10.9 with at least 512 MB RAM. If you plan to rebuild a Fusion Drive, you'll need to run DiskWarrior while started from OS X 10.8.2 or later. Help: Macintosh HD could not be repaired. Are there other options to try? Am I forced to now reformat the hard drive? Yes, there are, you'll need to delete one or more files though: Manually fix Overlapped Extent Allocation Errors without Diskwarrior Overlapped overlapped extent allocation errors can be the bane of any Mac user's existence.
Often, these errors go unnoticed until the problem becomes visible: your Mac might refuse to boot, crash unexpected, or worse, critical data might disappear from the Finder. Disk Utility can detect, but not fix overlapped extent allocation errors, and certain third-party utilities, such as Alsoft Diskwarrior, can fix them, but generally without reporting the consequences. Overlapped extent allocation error occur when the file system thinks that two files are occupying the same area on the hard disk, hence overlapping on the same "inode," which is the structure which holds the location of the data blocks the file occupies, and also file permissions and flags. $ fsck -fy $ mount -uw / Migrating from 9 to X FAQ. Used and refurbished Apple products.
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Anyway like suggested I used the snow disc to get to disc utility menu, got a hold of a 10.5 leopard .iso install file, used a partition on an external hard drive and turned that into a mac cd installation drive (using your instructions) but then even though it showed up as a boot disc when choosing disk to boot and restart off of, it would not actually come up when the comp restarted. Thanks again and sorry my excitement at getting this to work, refuses to make this an easy read. I reformatted iBook G4 - now I cannot reinstall OS. Thanks so much for your quick responses. I really appreciate your taking the time to help. This is what I did: Then I tried to reinstall the OS from the original restore CDs (the 3 gray CDs which came with it.)
It gets as far as the gray Apple screen, then hangs and freezes (the little 'gear' stops spinning). That is the reason I attempted to fix it another way. I didn't know the installer couldn't 'see' the iBook from my MacBook, but now I understand that - thanks for explaining it. joemikeb, I didn't try to install the Leopard that came with my MacBook, but a full install retail version I purchased. my question is have you tried booting from the Panther install CD in the CD drive of the iBook and if not, why not?
I did try that first off: I put it into Target Disk first thing to get the data off of it - since I had no idea whether I was going to be able to get it going on its own, or whether the drive was going to die a horrible death, at that point it seemed to be the number one priority. Use Linux to install OSX from a DMG extracted to a partition - without a Mac DVD - The Linux Community Forum. I used Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid), on which all the needed apps where available in the repos... also (FYI) I used a Mac OSX 10.5 (Leopard) .dmg, but I can see no reason this shouldn't work with a 10.6 (Snow Leopard) .dmg, 10.04 (Tiger) .dmg, or for that matter... any other OSX .dmg image. Anyone using this tutorial to install OS X 10.7 Lion may want to take a look at the info in this posting: the last but one posting here: To install OSX from a .dmg image from within Linux, and without access to a 'working' Mac or a 'Mac OS X Installation DVD'...
First you are going to need to install gparted, hfsplus, hfsutils, hfsprogs, and dmg2img... sudo apt-get install gparted hfsplus hfsutils hfsprogs dmg2img Next fire up gparted, and create 2 HFS+ PRIMARY partitions, one has to be a minimum of 8gb (or larger) and the other needs to be a minimum 30gb (or larger). So in a terminal: Have fun. Use Linux to install OSX from a DMG extracted to a partition - without a Mac DVD - The Linux Community Forum. Ibook g4 formatted and have no disk to reinstall can i recover the data. Ddrescue. [ English | Español | Français | Italiano ] Introduction GNU ddrescue is a data recovery tool.
It copies data from one file or block device (hard disc, cdrom, etc) to another, trying to rescue the good parts first in case of read errors. Ddrescuelog is a tool that manipulates ddrescue mapfiles, shows mapfile contents, converts mapfiles to/from other formats, compares mapfiles, tests rescue status, and can delete a mapfile if the rescue is done. The basic operation of ddrescue is fully automatic. If you use the mapfile feature of ddrescue, the data is rescued very efficiently, (only the needed blocks are read). Ddrescue does not write zeros to the output when it finds bad sectors in the input, and does not truncate the output file if not asked to. Automatic merging of backups: If you have two or more damaged copies of a file, cdrom, etc, and run ddrescue on all of them, one at a time, with the same output file, you will probably obtain a complete and error-free file.
Documentation Download. Ubuntu Rescue Remix | The Rescue Remix provides a Free-Libre Open-Source data recovery software toolkit based on Ubuntu. Ubuntucat » Blog Archive » Recovering deleted files with a Ubuntu CD. Continued from Recovering Windows files with a Ubuntu CD II: getting your files Introduction Usually when you delete a file from your computer, the file is still there—its space, however, is marked as available for use. Even if you reformat your hard drive and reinstall Windows (I had a friend who did this by accident, and I used Ubuntu to save her data), most of your data is probably still there. Assuming you were able to boot the Ubuntu CD and it properly detected your internet connection, you can use a program called Photorec to recover your personal files. If Ubuntu does not automatically detect your internet connection, and you have access to the internet on another computer, you can download the appropriate two installer files from here and here.
Find a way (by USB key or iPod) to transfer them to the computer running the Ubuntu live session, and double-click libntfs10 to install it, and then double-click testdisk to install it. Click on Settings > Repositories. Click Close again. Type. InstallingSoftware. Main page: Ubuntu Documentation: Installing applications. Note: The Main page is available in multiple languages. Installing software in Ubuntu is easy, and this guide will show you how to do it. By default, many useful programs are already installed when you put Ubuntu onto your computer. However, you may need a particular piece of software that serves a purpose not served by the default applications. You might just want to try an alternative program to one which is already installed.
In other words, you need new software. If you'd like to get some background information on what's happening when you install software (which can sometimes be technical), read Packages and Package Management. See also: FreeSoftwareAlternatives This section covers the basic concepts of packages and package management. What is a package? Software is a very broad term, and is generally taken to mean a program which you can run on your computer. Source or Binary?
Package Dependencies An example of dependencies. GParted Live on USB.