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So what is never knows best...? It is what Mamimi, from FLCL, has written on her cigarettes. And now, I co-opted it for this stupid blog.
8/15/2006 03:48:00 PM
My accomplishment for the day: somewhat recovering my Outlook PST files.
My notebook's hard drive is filled with bad sectors (hmmm... not sure where those came from), luckily the only files of note that seem to have corrupt sections were my current and archive email files. The odds were not in their favor (being ~750 MB each didn't help either). So the tech support guy tells me to try to back up my stuff, and he'll get me a new hard drive. The other problem with the email files is that they're too large to keep on my network share store, so using the automated backup services is my only hope. Too bad they balk at my bad sector riddled PST files.
In comes searching around on the internet for Unix data recovery tools. I find and compile GNU ddrescue (after installing Cygwin gcc and applying patches mentioned in a mailing list thread) and happily let it churn through my email, which has created nice backup'able files.
Come tomorrow when the new hard drive is in hand, hopefully things will recover more easily than they were to backup.
EDIT: Turns out it wasn't backup'able. I guess writing more data to a dying hard drive isn't as failsafe as I thought. So, I'm copying them over to my exteranl hard drive now with ddrescue now and trying to fix them as best as I can with scanpst.
My notebook's hard drive is filled with bad sectors (hmmm... not sure where those came from), luckily the only files of note that seem to have corrupt sections were my current and archive email files. The odds were not in their favor (being ~750 MB each didn't help either). So the tech support guy tells me to try to back up my stuff, and he'll get me a new hard drive. The other problem with the email files is that they're too large to keep on my network share store, so using the automated backup services is my only hope. Too bad they balk at my bad sector riddled PST files.
In comes searching around on the internet for Unix data recovery tools. I find and compile GNU ddrescue (after installing Cygwin gcc and applying patches mentioned in a mailing list thread) and happily let it churn through my email, which has created nice backup'able files.
Come tomorrow when the new hard drive is in hand, hopefully things will recover more easily than they were to backup.
EDIT: Turns out it wasn't backup'able. I guess writing more data to a dying hard drive isn't as failsafe as I thought. So, I'm copying them over to my exteranl hard drive now with ddrescue now and trying to fix them as best as I can with scanpst.
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