RED UNDEAD Recovery Steps

[Dominik Muench]

Hi Guys,

I'm posting this on behalf of a friend who cant access the forum at the moment, is out on set and has issues with a formatted SSD card, neither him nor I have ever used REDundead.

Can anyone help with the process to retrieve rd3 files on redundead
trying to get formatted files from ssd card to an external drive in redundead.
250gb card...step by step

thanks heaps.

 

[oliver imfeld]

there's a red undead user manuel on red.com; i can send it to you if you wish; here under a copy/paste.
cheers
o



RUNNING REDUNDEAD
1. Choose a location on your computer to save the recovered files to.
IMPORTANT: Available memory must be the same size or larger than the RED Drive or RED Compact Flash Card that is being recovered. In this example we will be using a desktop folder labeled 'REDundead'.
NOTE: If using an external drive, create a folder for the recovered files to be saved to.
2. Connect the RED media that you want to recover (REDFLASH, RED-DRIVE, or RED-RAM) to the computer.
3. In the Terminal window, type "diskutil list" and press ENTER.
• The RED media will appear and should be numbered as 'disk1', 'disk2', or 'disk3' etc.. In this example, RED media (FDisk_partition_scheme, Windows_FAT_32) comes up as 'disk3'.
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4. To properly run REDundead, the following information will need to be typed in the terminal window; 'redundead' followed by the source '/dev/rdisk3' (for this example) followed by the destination for the recovered files '/Users/admin/Desktop/REDundead/ '.
IMPORTANT: All media, including RED, is labeled as 'disk3' or similar, however it is required that you type an "r" in front of the source line - i.e. ”rdisk3” not “disk3” or the program will not run correctly.
• Based in the example we are using, the correct path will be entered as: redundead /dev/rdisk3 /Users/admin/Desktop/REDundead/
IMPORTANT: Note the spaces after “redundead” and “rdisk3” – these are required for the pro- gram to run correctly.
5. Double-check the path in the previous step and press ENTER to run REDundead.
6. The recovered files being created will be displayed in the terminal window.
NOTE: To stop the recovery, press CONTROL+Z. The files recovered completely will be OK, how- ever the file currently processing will be cut-off wherever the processing was stopped.
7. When REDundead has finished, DONE! will be displayed in the terminal window.
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8. Verify your files were created in the destination folder.
• If the folder is empty, perform the procedure again and verify the path in STEP 7 is entered correctly for you specific drive number and destination folder.
TIPS/HINTS
• As an alternative to opening Terminal to view the disk number, open Disk Utility and select 'Info' on the drive to view its disk number.
• You can drag and drop the 'REDfiles' folder into Terminal from your finder, instead of manually entering the destination path '/Users/admin/Desktop/REDundead/' in the Terminal window. The path will automatically be generated.
• It is a recommended to unmount the drive from Disk Utility before removing to prevent corruption of the drive and/or files.


 

[Dominik Muench]

cheers Oliver, will pass that on.

 

[Karl Kim]

Is there an equivalent Red Undead program for Windows? A disc utility that will recognize *.r3d files?