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