Hai

I'm using Ubuntu 9.04 for Drupal development. This morning I accidentally removed my www folder in directory. The folder has many of my web development documents.

I just restart my system after it happened, and I installed some recovery software like gpart. Is there any way to recover my www directory and files?

Thanks in advance.

Hello,
I apologize if this is the correct forum.
This is silly but I cannot find the 64 bit iso.
Thanks,
mcc

I have a OS windows 98 and had a lot of data.
I am trying to recover the data .
I am able to start the Live CD but once started I get the Live CD ububtu page
Tr to start it - I come up with a message
Kernel Panic not syncing - Out of memory and no killable process.

Can anyone point me what needs be done .

i've been trying to salvage some files from a Mac iBook that died and I cant seem get it to work, I have the drive in an external enclosure and linux can see it, with linux mint i can even see the 'read only files' in the user directory, but i can't copy them or save them in anyway

i tried this code "sudo chown -R username:usergroup /media/drivename"

but i keep getting read only messages, even though i seems to change ownership, when i check the permissions, the files are still owned by the previous root or username of that HDD

is there anything I can do to get my pictures and documents out?????

I am attempting to image a dying hard drive using ddrescue and was following the instructions posted here by Andrew: http://ubuntu-rescue-remix.org/node/90 and have run into an issue. When I boot into Ubuntu Rescue, the target drive is shown in lshw as /dev/sda however once I make the file system with [sudo mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda] the drive is no longer listed in lshw and I can not mount the file system. The prompt shows that I am in the home directory, and making the mnt dir creates it there, and /dev/sda no longer exists.

The only way I can get the target drive to re-appear in lshw is to boot into windows, mount the drive, initialize and re-format it.

Not sure what I'm doing wrong, any help would be appreciated. Thanks

Does Ubuntu Rescue Remix perform file-checks while booting?

I am asking this because I cloned a broken disk to a new one. There were zero errors.
(More info if you think this is of interest: http://old.nabble.com/ddrescue-results%3A-are-these-ok--td27209710.html)

Now I am wondering if e2fsck could screw up my clone, so I was considering to turn of the system, add another disk, boot Rescue Remix an other time, and clone the clone so that I have 2 clones :)

I realized that this wont make any sense if Rescue Remix would check and maybe corrupt my first clone at booting.

Could someone offer me advice for this sitation? I would be glad!

Hy there, I tried to move several GB of files from an external ntfs hd to a storage card. At some point an error message popped up and all moved files were neither on the target drive and nor on the source drive anymore. I am not a very experienced Ubuntu (and Linux) user you see, so having experimented a while with the common recovery tools I am rather puzzled an worried...
Any chance for a rough guide on what to do
Thanks Michael

Maybe I should not have dabbled in Linux?
I have and was pleasantly surprised to get an aged Thinkpad 600 working with 9.04 Jaunty Jackoff Microsoft.

BUT. Thinking I'm smart, I did an update 6 months after it's release and now screwed the Boot right up to a blank screen.
I'm sure my stuff is still in there. HELP Please!

Maybe I should have loaded an earlier version eh?

Few days ago I attempt to install a SP1 WinXP not supported by Bootcamp in a Mac drive. During installation, and after to select the destination disc, the installation forced me to format the disk to proceed installing WinXP so I've skip installation. But on restart there was no drive, only the optical drive, available and of course I can't boot the disk.

I've connected the afected HDD to a Sata to Usb case, and via Terminal (Mac) I've started Testdisk, but I'm not sure to use it and I don't want to loose all my data.

In Testdisk steps I just arrived to found partitions: 1-EFI, 2-HFS+, 3-FAT (Bootcamp), but the EFI partition is in FAT format and I dunno if I have to change to HFS+ or do what? FAT (Bootcamp) partition have several warnings but not overlaps with HFS+ partition and I can delete it so I've no data in FAT p. Someone could help me to restore the disk of this disaster?

Thanks so much.

I had first tried making an image of the ntfs partition using the gnu version of ddrescue. The drive is an 80GB ide laptop hard drive. The problem is when ddrescue is running it does not find any errors until it gets to 8GB and then it finds around 50 errors. I have never let it keep going because I do not know if it is going to get finshed or just find a lot more errors.

When I had ran test disk on the physical drive it had said that the boot sector is ok but the backup boot sector is bad. But when I go to analyze the drive it finds the ntfs partition but when I go to press p to view the files no data shows up at all. I also looked at trying to rebuild the mft but it says that both the mft and the mft mirror are bad also.

Then I had tried running photorec to recover the documents but on the documents it found nothing would open and the file sizes were to small. Also on mp3 files it found they were to small and they would not play either.