Re: [ProgSoc] recovering data under windows XP and 98

[jedd <jedd@nospam.progsoc.org>]

On Mon, 23 Jun 2003 03:28 pm, Rupert Su wrote:
 ] in defense of my stupidity, 

 Gordon Bennet .. I'm not calling you stupid.  It's just that most
 people on progsoc are GNU and/or Linux advocates .. so it's
 funny when we find one that isn't.  I've said it before, and I'll
 say it again : http://www.progsoc.org/~jedd/sarcasm.rm

 ] i must say, i was stupid enough not to think about backing up the data
 ] before trying any recovery actions. so you have definitely been an
 ] inspiration.

 Standard forensics approach - first thing you do is make a record
 of the scene (which is easy with IT because you can replicate it).

 Some MS-Windows tools might do this, but beware that they don't
 do it at a file-system level.  That is not what you want to do.

 You might want to look at Ghost (as an example) to do this kind
 of backup - I believe it compresses disk images quite nicely.  Again,
 make sure it's reading the raw disk, and not theVFAT file system.

 The Nortons utility sets are the obvious example for disk recovery
 in the Win9x space.  You probably won't be able to work on the
 copies of your disk, however, in Win9x (unlike you could with a
 VFAT mount under the Linux file system).

 Jedd.


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