Posted: 9/7/2010 4:48 PM
Post subject: Data Repair
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Guernsey
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I recovered my files using the testDisk awhile ago but now I face a new dilemma, some files I cannot open or they open but they don't do anything. I wonder if they are programs for data repairs. Can anyone help me? Also, I tried using Chkdsk but I am sharing the drive with people on a network so Chkdsk will not work but are there chkdsk like programs that will work just as good?
Guernsey Adams Pierre
Posted: 9/7/2010 5:28 PM
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Warepire
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Mostly this means the file is corrupted from not being read properly which was probably caused by a damaged sector on the disk.
Posted: 9/8/2010 3:29 PM
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Guernsey
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So it didn't matter that my disk was on a network?
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Posted: 9/8/2010 6:13 PM
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It could be signal corruption from the network... if so you can crc/md5 check the file you have with the file on the original disk (if that is at all possible)... if there is a difference you can try to copy the file again and see if it works better. But it is impossible to restore corrupt / missing data without some kind of recovery instructions from for example a RAID backup partition. There are programs that can reconstruct certain media files like AVI and mp3s though so that you can bypass the corrupt / missing data but you cannot get it back that way.