How to Copy Files and retain Timestamp - Modified Date
Posted: 06 Jun 2015, 00:36
New to Testdisk, and I've searched everywhere for this. Also not very familiar with Linux.
Problem is I am trying to recover files from a HDD (originally the boot disk on C: with a second D: partition, primarily for files.) This is not a problem of deleted files--the HDD is no longer accessible to Windows 7, but it turns out the files are for the most part fine. I'm using System Recovery CD, because though I can see the drive with Testdisk for Windows (whereas Windows usually can't) I cannot copy the files in the Windows version, without Windows freezing. I've made the HDD external, on eSATA. I can see the files fine now in TestDisk, and I figured out (with great difficulty) how to copy them to the Linux OS loaded in memory, and from there to a mounted SD card or internal HDD.
[NOTE: I had trouble getting Testdisk to see ANY drive to COPY to, other than something under the root, and since the OS is only loaded in memory, there is nowhere I can physically save the files to. I got around this by, with great difficulty, learning how to mount a drive and then use a File Manager (emelFM2) to copy the files from the OS in memory to physical media (which I couldn't make Testdisk do). This is a long, painstaking process that shouldn't be,...so I must be doing something wrong there.]
Now to my current dilemma. After all this, I find that although I am now able to find the files, and they look fine, I cannot copy them without the Filestamps changing, which makes it difficult to use them properly. Initially Testdisk leaves the Modified Date & time as they were, and changes the Accessed and Changed time. But next when I copy them from the OS "drive" in memory to actual media, ALL the dates shown in emelFM2 are changed to the Accessed date from the earlier copy to memory (the OS) in Testdisk.
Quite a saga--More than I need. What do I do?
Thanks,
Michael
Problem is I am trying to recover files from a HDD (originally the boot disk on C: with a second D: partition, primarily for files.) This is not a problem of deleted files--the HDD is no longer accessible to Windows 7, but it turns out the files are for the most part fine. I'm using System Recovery CD, because though I can see the drive with Testdisk for Windows (whereas Windows usually can't) I cannot copy the files in the Windows version, without Windows freezing. I've made the HDD external, on eSATA. I can see the files fine now in TestDisk, and I figured out (with great difficulty) how to copy them to the Linux OS loaded in memory, and from there to a mounted SD card or internal HDD.
[NOTE: I had trouble getting Testdisk to see ANY drive to COPY to, other than something under the root, and since the OS is only loaded in memory, there is nowhere I can physically save the files to. I got around this by, with great difficulty, learning how to mount a drive and then use a File Manager (emelFM2) to copy the files from the OS in memory to physical media (which I couldn't make Testdisk do). This is a long, painstaking process that shouldn't be,...so I must be doing something wrong there.]
Now to my current dilemma. After all this, I find that although I am now able to find the files, and they look fine, I cannot copy them without the Filestamps changing, which makes it difficult to use them properly. Initially Testdisk leaves the Modified Date & time as they were, and changes the Accessed and Changed time. But next when I copy them from the OS "drive" in memory to actual media, ALL the dates shown in emelFM2 are changed to the Accessed date from the earlier copy to memory (the OS) in Testdisk.
Quite a saga--More than I need. What do I do?
Thanks,
Michael