Data Rescue II - Postprocessing CBR data

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Data Rescue II - Postprocessing CBR data

Hi.
I am currently using Data Rescue II to try and recover files from a damaged hard drive. It has moved from scanning blocks (which seemed to take about 20 hours) to "Postprocessing CBR data". I don't believe the hour estimate it gives me because last night it said something like 400 hours left and now it says 100 hours left so unless I slept really hard last night this estimate is wrong.

Some varied questions:
The files that are most important for me to recover are all MSword text files. Is there a chance in ****?
Is data rescue II an all or nothing situation? Is there a better chance of retreiving text than, say video or music?
The mac genius said that if this process works, I should be able to do an erase and reinstall on my laptop once this process is done and I have my files on a hard drive. Will I then be able to just drag files and applications back onto the laptop from the hard drive? (This last question may be way dumb...)

Any advice or guidance would be greatly appreciated.

Abita

I Book G4 Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Posted on Jun 8, 2007 8:02 PM

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Answer 1

Jun 9, 2007 10:31 AM in response to Abita

Welcome to the Apple Discussions!

Data Rescue is data recovery "software". If the hard drive is physically damaged, Data Rescue will not be able to recover some or all of the data. There are hardware data recovery options, but they're usually very expensive. Personally, I never had any success using Data Rescue (1) to recover files from a hard drive with a damaged file directory (software issue), but I have had better success with Data Rescue II. The files all lost their names (and therefore, their file extensions to tell the Mac what application to open them with) so it took quite some time after the files were recovered to figure out exactly which file was what. In fact, that took longer than the actual recovery.

-Doug

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spudnuty

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Jun 10, 2007 6:53 AM in response to Douglas McLaughlin

Right I agree with Doug about recovery from a physically damaged drive.
I recently had my first experience with Data Rescue II. I had a G4 come in with a HD that Disk Warrior said had a directory that was too damaged to repair. The computer is used in upper Michigan where power outages were common.
Using Data Rescue II I was able to see the entire drive and rescue everything. There were files that were damaged but they seemed to be language related.

You might have better luck if you try to rescue just the files that you need.

BTW that drive is erased (I overwrote random data 8 X - now that took 48 hrs!) and working. SMART says it's good but it sounds suspect to me.
Richard

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