Hard disk data recovery. 364

Grant

I was transferring about 17GB of files in two streams to a shared 160GB Hard drive (D drive or hdb) housed in a Windows 2000 machine. As you can tell it's the second HD on this machine. The OS is on the first HD. The machines were connected by a Linksys router.

I started the transfer, it all seemed to be going well, and so I left it for a few (4 or 5?) hours. When I returned there were two messages (one for each stream) that said the operation could not be completed as the network location no longer existed. Sorry I don't have the actual wording, but it was close to what I have written. I tried to log in to the Windows 2000 computer from the XP one and The shared printer was still visible, but not the previously shared (D) drive. So I physically went to the Win 2000 machine and in Explorer the Drive was visible, but gave no Properties (size). Upon trying to access the drive through explorer Windows reported that the drive is not formatted.

I'm not sure what other details I can give. hope this is enough.

The solution that I wanted was to recover the data that is on the (now) unformatted disk. As far as "doing it properly" goes... I think I just learned that lesson :)

didn't mean to be vague, I just didn't know. The fdisk output says FAT32, I'm inclined to believe it.

I hope that I wasn't suggesting that Linux was the issue. Your axiom bears repeating.

Here's the output:

Diskdev-hdb: 160.0GB 16004188568 plus 16 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors-tracks, 19457 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks ID Systemdev-hdb1 1 19457 156288521 5 Extendeddev-hdb5 1 19457 156288521 c w95 FAT32 (LBA)

Let's see if I have this right. You are saying that I should be able to mount hdb5 as read only, save the contents as an ISO (to another drive) and then go from there? I just want to confirm all this before doing further damage.

Thanks for your time! brian.