-=PCTechTalk=- Re: Another data-recovery-related question
- From: "~OoO~" <SirTroth@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 22:51:47 -0400
I'm assuming you don't have a copy of SpinRite... though, if you did, I
would run that drive through SpinRite first and see if it can properly
recover any data.
If you don't have a copy of SpinRite, I'm not sure its necessarily worth =
the
money for just that one issue. For me, it=92s the best money I've spent =
for
any product. I think lately its going for about $79. But, again, I =
probably
wouldn't spend the money just for saving my music collection.
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[mailto:pctechtalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Larry Southerland
Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2008 5:25 PM
To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; Puters_N_Such@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: -=3DPCTechTalk=3D- Another data-recovery-related question
Assuming the following true facts:
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1. I have a 1 Terabyte Hard Drive which was "filled to the gills" with
various data files.
2. Said Western Digital had "ventilation problems" such that the Master
Boot Table would simply "disappear" until one had shut off the drive at
which point the Master Boot Table would magically reappear.
3. I finally got tired of this aggravation and called Western Digital
tech support and, in their worst Bangelorian English they agreed to send =
a
brand new hard drive. (OTOH: their English is better than my Hindi or
Punjabi.)
4. About a week after the promised delivery date, a refurbished (not
brand new) hard drive arrived. I tried to perform a direct copy of the =
data
between drives, but got CRC error, indicating that some of the files =
were
damaged (e.g., cross-linked).
5. In an effort to recover my data, I purchased and ran a data recovery
program on the defective drive. After running the program for over two
weeks with no end in site, I tried the Easeus Data Recovery Wizard
Professional, which appeared to do a stalwart job of data recovery.
6. Unfortunately, several of the files that I recovered appear to be
recovered in a corrupted state (e.g., some of the recovered mp3s have =
the
correct song playing when one attempts to play them, but others appear =
to be
fragments of other songs with the incorrect title - "Secret Agent Man" =
by
Johnny Rivers actually play snippets of a Doctor Demento show.
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My question is: Is there any way (except trial and error of over =
415,093
files) to tell which files have been corrupted?
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