Re: [Blind-sysadmins] recovering data from a usb3 external hard drive

Hi Simon, How to you get speakup to start? I've downloaded 64 bit ISO, tried on 2 different machines, desktop and Lenovo laptop, and no luck to start speakup. Ran: modprobe speakup_soft nothing happens Ran: espeakup, still nothing Tried sudo modprobe speakup_soft still no luck. Any tips how you get the speakup to come up? Thank you Anatoliy -----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Simon Eigeldinger via Blind-sysadmins Sent: Saturday, November 4, 2017 6:19 PM To: blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org Cc: Simon Eigeldinger Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] recovering data from a usb3 external hard drive Hi, I prefer grml. it has speakup/espeakup and more tools. it also includes clonezilla, photorec, testdisk and other stuff you might find fun to play with. Here are the latest isos: 32 bit: http://daily.grml.org/grml32-full_sid/latest/grml32-full_sid_latest.iso 64 bit: http://daily.grml.org/grml64-full_sid/latest/grml64-full_sid_latest.iso grml accessibility page: http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=accessibility Greetings, Simon Am 05.11.2017 um 02:07 schrieb David Mehler:

Hello everyone,

Thank you. The applications photorec and TestDisk were the two I was going to try next.

What about a Linux rescue environment, something I can run from a virtual machine? I've heard of SystemRescueCD, something with a graphical environment. Is this one accessible? If not, are there others that are?

Thanks. Dave.

On 11/4/17, Simon Eigeldinger via Blind-sysadmins wrote:

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Hi,

I also got some luck with photorec.

additionally my ntfs formatted 3 TB hdd has the following total capacity: 2.72 TB. those are 3,000,454,082,560 Bytes

Greetings, Simon

greetings, Simon

Am 04.11.2017 um 23:39 schrieb Anatoliy Shudrya:

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Hi Dave, Data recovery is very time consuming. I have previously used TestDisk with great success. It's a command line utility and I think I had to use JAWS cursor to read all prompts. I am not sure though if it supports 4 TB drives, haven't used it for a while.

-----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of David Mehler Sent: Saturday, November 4, 2017 11:50 AM To: blind-sysadmins Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] recovering data from a usb3 external hard drive

Hello,

This drive is not mine, nor is the error that brought it to me.

A friend of mine, I believe if the information I have is accurate, mistakenly thought this drive a 4TB my passport Seagate I believe, quick formatted it. The size is 4tb of which 3.63tb show up.

I had him get another drive, this one a 4tb western digital I believe it's an easy store, this one also with 3.63 tb available.

This format was done on a win10 machine.

I've tried twice to recover anything using the free recuva program. Running a deep scan shows 27 files but it can't get any of them. Running for a better word the light scan shows the same 27 files, but in that case I can highlight them all, right click, choose recover selected.

I selected the easystore drive and attempted a recovery. First issue it told me that I needed 3.63tb only 3.62 were available. The drive had some content from western digital on it, I moved it off the drive and tried it again.

This time it said insufficient space needed 3.63tb available 3.63tb, numbers were identical, but it asked me if I wanted to try a different recovery path, which that's the only drive I've got that can recover such a substancial load.

Then I thought well maybe when both the my passport was originally formatted/partitioned and accidentally quick formatted, maybe the cluster sizes were incompatible between the my passport and the easystore.

So I went in to format, didn't do anything to either drive, but compared the cluster size, blew my theory away both have a cluster size of 4096k. I hit cancel so nothing more was done.

I'm kind of stuck. It takes about a day for the initial scan, i'm assuming the same neartime for the recovery, this is my third attempt.

I then got the idea of recovering each of the 27 individual files. Tried that and it said I didn't have permissions to perform the recovery operation, which makes no sense, I'm an admin on this box, also win10 pro, his win10 is home, but neither of those usb drives should be dealing with permissions, even though they're both ntfs.

I'd appreciate any suggestions, I'm kind of stuck.

Thanks. Dave.

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