POLL - Recovery of formated media

[david farland]

I can't believe what I hearing!!!
What masochistic dead wish makes people want no safety net if one may be available.
You take total care and there are still scenarios beyond your control that can kill your all media before, during or after backup.
This thread is very important if it begins to define feasibilities (with solutions) of recovering from particular media actions, writes/over writes/erase etc. Give me a break ladies!

 

[Brent J. Craig]

Kodak needs to help me with recovering footage from this flashed can of film I have...

And Kodak couldn't help you make backups of your exposed mags either. Just because something was impossible in the olden days doesn't mean we shouldn't use all of the tools now available to us.

Why would anyone not want the community to develop some sort of safety net for the inevitable screw ups that will happen?

 

[Michael Morlan]

I wonder if the old Norton Systemworks, with it's double delete setup would work.

Delete. Doh! I needed that! Right-click the trash can, open recovery dialog, select file, recover.

Deleting essentially removes directory entries. Norton keeps track of them and as long as file data hasn't been written over again, recovers the entries.

Michael

 

[Casey Green]

The link is broken. It was created with a URL that is shortened with ellipsis in the middle. Need to replace it with the full URL.

Thanks. This one should work:

http://tinyurl.com/36u9qh

Already almost halfway there... thanks for the contributions, everyone.

 

[Dylan Reeve]

It's not that I don't want to see a safety net, it just that the safety net is likely to have massive holes in it. Certainly all data, to some extent is recoverable, but there isn't going to be one product or solution that will always work well.

Some things will work better than others, but we should assume in most cases that once something is gone it's really gone. Not feel reassured because we know that there's some app that will get it back.

If the worst happens and it's lost, then you need to take that as it comes and decide how to approach it. Is it worth the time, cost and effort the recover it or should it be reshot.

No matter what happens with this test, and whatever others we arrange, there will always be a fairly big chance that it won't work when you really need it to.

There are people who make hundreds of dollars an hour in forensic data recovery, and they still don't get everything (especially not bigger files, where the chance of single parts of the file being overwritten and damaging the integrity of the overall file is much larger).

I'm not saying ban file recovery tools, I'm saying take it with a huge grain of salt, and don't go thinking it will actually work when you're really counting on it, because Murphy's law will bite you.