File structure/names recovery
Posted: 20 Jun 2012, 16:36
Hi,
I accidentally started erasing my internal 2TB hard drive instead of my external (with paragon festplatten manager - don't know if there is an english version with an english name). After about 8% of this erasing process i noticed the mistake an stopped it. As result, about 8% of my hard drive is now zeros.
The drive was separated into several partitions:
- one big NTFS, which I created a long time ago an contains really important data,
- and some linux partitions, which are relatively new and irrelevant for me.
So I'm pretty sure only the NTFS partition with the relevant data is affected.
I know that the 8% is lost forever, but I hope there is a way to recover the rest of the files on the NTFS partition. I already recreated the lost partition with TestDisk and started (more ore less successful) searching for files with PhotoRec, of cause the names and paths are gone. and that's the problem:
all these files on the drive are useless without the right name and path, because they refer to each other and they are linked.
As far as I understood I'm pretty sure the MBR was overwritten at least once and without that it's impossible, but I wanted to give it a try anyway:
Is there any possibility to recover the files WITH the right names and paths?
PS: It would also be really nice if you could explain to me why this is possible or not and how files are stored and organized on a hard drive. Or some helpful links on this topic.
Thanks a lot!
I accidentally started erasing my internal 2TB hard drive instead of my external (with paragon festplatten manager - don't know if there is an english version with an english name). After about 8% of this erasing process i noticed the mistake an stopped it. As result, about 8% of my hard drive is now zeros.
The drive was separated into several partitions:
- one big NTFS, which I created a long time ago an contains really important data,
- and some linux partitions, which are relatively new and irrelevant for me.
So I'm pretty sure only the NTFS partition with the relevant data is affected.
I know that the 8% is lost forever, but I hope there is a way to recover the rest of the files on the NTFS partition. I already recreated the lost partition with TestDisk and started (more ore less successful) searching for files with PhotoRec, of cause the names and paths are gone. and that's the problem:
all these files on the drive are useless without the right name and path, because they refer to each other and they are linked.
As far as I understood I'm pretty sure the MBR was overwritten at least once and without that it's impossible, but I wanted to give it a try anyway:
Is there any possibility to recover the files WITH the right names and paths?
PS: It would also be really nice if you could explain to me why this is possible or not and how files are stored and organized on a hard drive. Or some helpful links on this topic.
Thanks a lot!