I have an external usb drive that is failing. However, I managed to save the contents of the disk using dd. The drive was formated as a single NTFS partition but the partition table is broken; OS (Win7, Ubuntu) did only recognize the drive as being unpartitioned. DiskInternals NTFS Recovery 3.7 managed to identify a lot of files, but asks me to pay if I want to recover them. Before I spend money on this, can someone recommend a way to get my files back using freeware only?
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Try TestDisk. It's a recovery utility for linux (and Windows) that can work with disk images. The website i linked should contain all information you need. If you are unpatient try this: You will see a menu that's quite easy to understand. But please remember: Always work with a copy. Do not work with your (hopefully not) only backup! |
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