Accidentally mounted a ReiserFS drive as MBR on my windows box - how do I recover?
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I had a WD Netcenter with a 160GB drive that kept dropping off the network. I opened up the enclosure and removed the hard drive, connected to a Windows box without knowing the drive used ReiserFS....
When mounting on the Windows box, I chose "MBR" as filesystem. 70GB of data corrupted: 90% of data is word documents, excel spreadsheets, and jpg's - all mission critical.
Attempted recovery on Linux box (ubuntu) using TestDisk: I could see the container, but couldn't get anything out – according to TestDisk this was because I chose "none" as filesystem.
Attempted recovery using Nucleus Kernel Recovery for windows: 98% of what was recovered is incomplete and/or unusable.
I need to know if a way exists to recover or rebuild original ReiserFS MBR, or what tools/techniques might give me the best results in recovering the data.
Found a Windows version of TestDisk and I ran it yesterday - here are the results:
TestDisk 6.14-WIP, Data Recovery Utility, May 2012
Christophe GRENIER <[email protected]>
http://www.cgsecurity.org
Disk /dev/sda - 160 GB / 149 GiB - CHS 19457 255 63
The harddisk (160 GB / 149 GiB) seems too small! (< 519 GB / 483 GiB)
Check the harddisk size: HD jumpers settings, BIOS detection...
The following partitions can't be recovered:
Partition Start End Size in sectors
> ReiserFS 3.6 62 241 8 19458 0 18 311581568
ReiserFS 3.6 62 248 55 19458 8 2 311581568
ReiserFS 3.6 62 254 37 19458 13 47 311581568
ReiserFS 3.6 63 6 28 19458 20 38 311581568
ReiserFS 3.6 63 13 11 19458 27 21 311581568
ReiserFS 3.6 63 21 43 19458 35 53 311581568
ReiserFS 3.6 63 27 41 19458 41 51 311581568
ReiserFS 3.6 63 37 35 19458 51 45 311581568
ReiserFS 3.6 63 54 20 19458 68 30 311581568
ReiserFS 3.6 63 76 26 19458 90 36 311581568
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