Hi, I have a Pioneer DVD recorder that I lost the data off because The power went off and when I turned the recorder back on it told me to reinitialise the HDD. This cleared the HDD. I suspect that the data is still there but not accessable. Has anyone encountered this problem before and did they manage to recover the data again? I suspect I just need to take out the drive and attach it to my PC using an external caddy and recover the files. I rang up Pioneeer and they said the files are in Linux format. Will this make a differenc or will an mpeg in Linux be the same as one using say FAT32 etc?
Any help would be greatly appreciated
Jonathan
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I suggest Easy Recovery Professional by Ontrack, it has done a good job of recovering data that was accidentally lost for me before. It doesn't work well with physically damaged drives though.
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Linux formatted Drive is unreadable under windows.
Install ubuntu Linux(or run a Live CD) and then attach your drive. type "recover my tv files" and you should be ok, maybe, ho-humCorned beef is now made to a higher standard than at any time in history.
The electronic components of the power part adopted a lot of Rubycons. -
What that means is that you will need to be 'running Linux' in order to 'see' that hdd format. But that is not that big a deal nowdays. I think you can download and burn to CD what is called Bootable Linux or Live Linux CD Distributions. I've tried Railslive v0.2.1 and it's pretty nice. I have also tried Phlak Bootable Linux, It too wasn't bad.
You will probably also need a Linux version of something like "Free Undelete" to be able to recover the deleted files. I think the bootable Linux can write to a hdd after you mount it.(?)
You might need to do a little reading on this one. I messed with Linux when it first came out but I can't remember all that important stuff anymore.
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Dont bother with the external caddy if you can help it. I honestly wouldnt bother, its a lot of effort for shows that WILL be repeated.
Corned beef is now made to a higher standard than at any time in history.
The electronic components of the power part adopted a lot of Rubycons.
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