Before starting checklist
Some conditions do exist which must be met to allow for a successful recovery.
Make sure you are not missing something:1. Check that you have a
known-good hard disk with
enough free space on it.
WARNING: Never recover data to
the damaged drive. Doing so will cause further filesystem damage. It
is possible to recover data to a known-working partition on the same physical
disk, but it does require special consideration.
2. Check that the system you are working on has the
appropriate code pages installed in order to be able to read
national-language symbols in file and directory names.
3. Make sure that you understand volume locations. That
means you should have clear understanding of the following question: "where is
the damaged volume located? what size it was?".
4. When working under Windows NT/2000/XP, you need administrative access to the computer in order to be able to access the disk(s)
directly.
5. If physical damage is suspected, review the following
settings:
6. Make sure there is no "hibernation" involved if you
are moving
undamaged disks around several machines. Ensure the machine is properly shut
down before unplugging the good drive from it. This does not apply to the
damaged drive. If the drive failed with a system in a hibernated state,
attempting to complete a shutdown on it may actually make the things worse,
so you should just take the drive as it is. |
