[lug] [OT] Help with Win2000 file recover

[D. Stimits]

rm at fabula.de wrote:
> 
> Hello everyone,
> 
> sorry if this is so off-topic but at this time of the day
> you're the only people i can contact ..
> A former graphic artist of mine just contaced me in panic: she
> accidently deleted a whole tree of directories from her Win2000
> server. From what i can tell the deleted folders/files did _not_
> end up in the trash can but just fanished (i think she deleted the
> folders from a remote machine -- i have no idea where Win2000 would
> put those files). Normaly i stay away from anything Win-like but since
> this seems to be half a year of work (no, no backups :-/ ) and she
> has some good-willing but very incompetent advisors allready i thought
> i might give it a try and ask for help here on this list.
> Any pointers to info/tools ? Is it possible to mount the disk under
> Linux (ro) and try to copy the partition. Most of the file  (flash and
> photoshop) should be easy to find on disk (unless Win2000 uses some
> encryption), but of course if there are easier way i'd rather go for
> them.
> 
> Thank's in advance and again sorry for the line noise
> 
>    Ralf Mattes
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I never used the Norton tools on Win2k, maybe as J. Briggs mentioned it
would do the job (I know it does on vfat, not sure how ntfs works).

FYI, the instant you defragment you will lose it all. And the first time
some new file finds an old location convenient, you'll lose that chunk
of data.

D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com