DATA RESCUE II

WHY DO SOME RECOVERED FILES SHOW AS ZERO KB?

Basics of File Recovery
If you simply put files in the Trash you can restore them by opening the Trash (left-click on the Trash icon) and drag the files from the Trash to your Desktop or other desired location. OS X also provides a short-cut to undo the last item moved to the Trash -press COMMAND-Z.
If you empty the Trash the files are gone. If a program does an immediate delete rather than moving files to the Trash, then the files are gone. Recovery is possible but you must not allow any additional writes to the hard drive - shut it down. When files are deleted only the directory entries, not the files themselves, is modified. The space occupied by the files has been returned to the system as available for storage, but the files are still on the drive. Writing to the drive will then eventually overwrite the space once occupied by the deleted files in which case the files are lost permanently. Also if you save a file over an existing file of the same name, then the old file is overwritten and cannot be recovered.
If you stop using the drive it's possible to recover deleted files that have not been overwritten with recovery software such as Data Rescue II, File Salvage or TechTool Pro. Each of the preceding come on bootable CDs to enable usage without risk of writing more data to the hard drive.
The longer the hard drive remains in use and data are written to it, the greater the risk your deleted files will be overwritten.
Also visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQ on Data Recovery.

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Prosoft Data Rescue for Hard Drive "No Valid Packages" in Disk Utility

I have a Macbook and I believe the hard drive has crashed. When I turn it on, I get the circle with line through it and the folder with question mark inside blinking.
I got the Install Disk 1 to boot up but can not verify the hard drive. I get the following message "No Valid Packages" and disk verification fails. I also checked the SMART status of the hard drive and it says "Not Supported".
I also can not re-install the operating system, as there is no hard drive that shows up to install it to when I try to run the installer disk.
I know I need a new hard drive, much bigger one. I'm purchasing this today, a 320gb Samsung M6 Series internal drive and a Western digital external 500gb WDE1U5000N.
I also want to purchase the Prosoft Data Rescue but have several questions:
1)I read the this can work if disk utility sees the hard drive. The hard drive is seen in disk utility, but like i said before the drive has failed and it can not mount. I've read other reviews that said Prosoft can still be used in this case, but I want to make sure..please define what is meant by "disk utility being unable to see the hard drive"...Does this mean "dead hard drive or the hard drive not physically being VISIBLE in disk utility (because mine is, I just can't mount or verify it)
2)If I can use Prosoft, when I put it in my damaged Macbook to recover the files, can I then put these files onto my new external drive? Or do I have to have another internal drive to do this? (I'm just buying 1 right now)...How do you get the recovered data off if I can not move it onto an external drive? Do I put it on a disk and then take the damaged hard drive out, put the new one in and then put it on the external?
Sorry for the questions but I want to buy today by 5pm so it ships by Friday to me to fix this ASAP, thanks!

I read the this can work if disk utility sees the hard drive.
Prosoft Data Rescue can help recover files after a software failure. (Usually related file directory problems.) It sounds, however, that you've experienced a hardware failure of your original hard drive. No amount of software can ever recover a hard drive from a hardware failure. If you really need to recover the data, a data recovery service may be able to help. The cost will depend on the steps needed to recover the data and how much data is recovered.
-Doug

Can't Open Project Recovered With Data Rescue

Hi All,
Stupid me, I trashed a project file and emptied the Trash. I had forgotten that a FCP sequence was referencing the DV files contained in that project package. I had no backup of the DV files (please, no preaching - I learned my lesson).
I was able to recover the project file with ProSoft's Data Rescue, but here's the rub:
The original project was created with an earlier version of iMovie, and was reconverted later with iMovie 6 HD in the same folder. Data Rescue does not seem to recognize that it is a package type of file, thus option-clicking does not list Open Package Contents as an option. Double clicking the recovered project file results in iMovie 6 HD trying to convert the file from the older format, but since the package contents don't seem to be available, or arranged correctly, errors occur.
iMovie 6 seems to know the names of the clips, but can't import them from the older format. I am certain the clips are there (there's only 2), given the project size is 17 GB, which looks about right. Thus I feel certain the clips are in there somewhere.
Unfortunately, I no longer have the iMovie version that was used in the initial creation of the project. not that that would help anyway. Is there some way to recover the clips?

Nevermind, the Thorough Search option in Data Rescue found the files I thought were gone for good .

Data rescue 3 external drive recovery .Invisible external hard disk 1 tb., I want a refund.

data rescue 3 external drive recovery .Invisible external hard disk 1 tb., I want a refund.

I personally would use Disk Warrior before attempting to recover any data for that exact reason.

Hard Drive failed - Trying to Use Data Rescue II

I am trying to recover some photos and videos of my first child's first 20 months alive. My MacBook crashed while I was checking my gmail one night. I have a friend's iBook G4 connected to my MacBook via FireWire right now and am trying to use Data Rescue II to possibly recover my photos and videos. I can live without everything else. When I use the install disc to boot up my MacBook, all the iBook is seeing is the install disc, not the hard drive. Why? and what am I doing wrong? Why can't I see/scan the hard drive, too? Do I have other options?
Thank you!

When I hook the FireWire up, should something automatically pop up on the iBook, showing me that it recognizes the MacBook is now connected?
The drive in the MacBook would mount like any other hard drive.
Is it still a possibility that it's the data cable, or is that pretty unlikely?
Given that Disk Utility in the installer disk won't see the drive, I think it most likely that the drive has failed, in which case Data Rescue will not be able to recover anything (it won't work if the drive won't even mount). Probably the only way you're going to be able to recover any files would be by sending the drive to a data recovery service, and those are very expensive.
You can try removing the drive and putting it in an external case or using a drive adapter like the NewerTech unit (whatever's least expensive). That would verify that the problem is the drive and not with the drive circuitry on the MacBook. If you have an Apple Store near you, often they can perform such a test at the Genius Bar which would save you from having to buy a case/adapter yourself.

Can't open a data-rescue found file in I movie

I mistakenly trashed an IMovie file and I have purchased data rescue which has found 36 previously trashed files. When I try to open the file in IMovie (they were created in I movie) they won't open, it doesn't recognized the file type etc. Does anyone have any suggestions? Dr. Steve. I Movie 4.0.1 and data rescue II

Try my file fixers:
http://www.berga.nu/%7Eusrlt/imovie/index.html

Using Data Rescue II to recover lost files from corrupt hard drive!!!

OK I am terribly confused. I found out my MacBook Pro hard drive is corrupt and I can't even start up my computer. I was told to get Data Rescue II, another Mac, and an external hard drive.
I have all of the above but have no idea how to make it work!! How do I access the corrupt HD on the current iMac I am using with Data Rescue and then transfer the found files to the external HD??? Please I need help asap!!

First, if you have an external drive, then install OS X on the external drive. Boot from the external drive, install Data Rescue, then run Data Rescue and see if you are able to recover any files from the bad drive.
You boot from the external drive by restarting the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the external drive then click on the down arrow button.
If you do not have an external drive then you can try connecting the two computers with a FireWire cable and booting the computer with the bad drive into Target Disk Mode. Boot the good computer normally. Install Data Rescue and run it to see if you can recover anything from the bad drive. My guess is this method will not likely work, but one never knows without trying.
BTW, have you tried the following:
Repairing the Hard Drive and Permissions
Boot from your OS X Installer disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Installer menu (Utilities menu for Tiger and Leopard.) After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the installer. Now restart normally.
If DU reports errors it cannot fix, then you will need Disk Warrior (4.0 for Tiger, and 4.1 for Leopard) and/or TechTool Pro (4.6.1 for Leopard) to repair the drive. If you don't have either of them or if neither of them can fix the drive, then you will need to reformat the drive and reinstall OS X.

Reformat a firewire drive after using data rescue 2?

I have used data rescue 2 to take all the data from a FW drive that my G5 can't recognize. Can I reformat the drive via journal extended and start to use it again? Mechanically the drive seem OK, and data rescue 2 was able to retrieve everything I needed.

We don't know what corrupted the tree, or if Zeroing will actually help, but it's easy to do it now, and improbable later... even though it "sounds" like there are no cars coming, it wouldn't hurt to take the time to "look" both ways before crossing the street! LOL
Run Disk Utility, select the whole Device on the left, click the Erase Tab, Click the Options button, Click the "Zero out Data" button, click OK, select MacOS Extended (Journalled), if not already selected.

Data Rescue II and my HD

When I updated my G4 to Leopard, I did a clean install on a new drive. When finished I took the old 120 gig drive that came with the machine and hooked it up as an external to remove some data. That process corrupted the drive and it's not recognized except as a drive needing initializing. There is no click of death on the drive, it spins up and seems to work just fine. The OS sees it as a 1.1 terabyte blank drive (I've been putting in drives and externals for 30 years, and this is the first time I've ever had a problem).
So the only data that wasn't backed up was hundred of CD's that were imported as mp3. While this could be done again, it's a LOT of work. (Yes, I know about backup and my personal machine is backed up daily, but this was a department machine at my school...)
Yesterday I downloaded Data Rescue II -- it saw the drive as a 1.1 terabyte drive and said it would take five thousand hours or something to look at it. I let it run all night and stopped it this morning after it had done around 140 gig of my 120 gig drive (???). I let it go a few more hours to show what could be recovered and it found quite a bit (considering it had only done about 140 gig of the 1.1 terabytes that this 120 gig drive has....)
So here's my questions:
1. what makes the drive appear to be a 1.1 terabyte drive? (my suspicion is that the electronics on the drive got trashed, not the platers/heads or anything physical)
2. while I don't recall exactly, the list of files that could be recovered included stuff like File001, File002, etc. If those WERE the mp3's and they would have to be identified and re-named, this isn't something that could easily be done and it's probably faster to start over importing into iTunes. Is this a typical end result as far as file names? If I let it go five thousand more hours would I be looking at actual file names (Beethoven - Symphony No. 1 1st movt) or would it always be File004, or would it just depend?
I'm reluctant to spend the money to purchase Data Rescue if all I get are unusable file names since that's of no help.
Someone also suggested I might find a matching drive and switch the electronics and give it a try, but haven't found one yet.
Any help or suggestions welcome.

The hatter wrote:
The case you bought may not be supporting Leopard, I had one old FW case from my G4 MDD days that was like that. Just get a new OWC Mercury case, or for an emergency, an adapter.
Case not support Leopard? That's the dummest thing I ever heard!! And it turns out to be correct. The case was part of the problem.
Other part of the problem was on of the pins on the HD connection was slightly depressed (didn't notice it at first) and once I pulled the pin back up into position, my Leopard machine did see the drive as the right size, but coudln't do anything with it. My wife's older Tiger machine read the drive just fine and all the stuff is right there.
Sometimes (maybe all the time?) it seems to me like Apple is designing their software so that ONLY hardware with a little white apple on it will work

Data Rescue II AND Disksaver for failing hard drive?

I need some guidance on rescuing data from an internal hard drive that Disk Utility could not fix. (The drive is making an odd noise, and apparently has a mechanical problem.)
Data Rescue II appears to successfully cloned my iMac's drive, while Carbon Copy Cloner and SuperDuper froze when I attempted to use them on it.
I just finished my cloning of the problem drive with Data Rescue II last night, and I'm debating my next step. I bought Diskwarrior as well, but haven't opened the box yet.
Should I now use Diskwarrior to build a new directory for the clone, or is that new directory generated by the Data Rescue cloning? Also, can you boot from the clone created by Data Rescue II?
I'm thinking of having a replacement drive installed in my iMac, then cloning back to it from the clone I made last night, if it's healthy. Any thoughts?

Gary,
Always interested in drive failures (and trying to avoid 'em!)
Saw a link on StorageReview to a study done by Google:
Predicting hard drive failures
Its a study by some Google employees on the failure rates of disk drives deployed within their infrastructure.
Failure Trends In A Large Disk Drive Population
Examining the population of hard drives under deployment within Google
* In general, there are around four ways a HDD will fail. Firmware zone corruption, electronic failure, mechanical failure, and logical corruption. Unfortunately, S.M.A.R.T only handles a subset of the "mechanical failure" category (mainly media failure and thermal failure), and does not protect against single instance/incident catastrophic mechanical errors (head crash, spindle/servo motor failure, stick-shun).
* I was surprised about the lack of correlation found between elevated temperature and expected drive reliability. The graph only went up to 50 C, though, and I would expect a much stronger correlation once the temperature reached beyond typical max temp specs.
* I give props to the google crew for their SMART correlation analysis. I would have loved to see a quick postmortem on all of the failed drives to determine cause, and a breakdown into the top four categories.
* Side note, logical corruption may lead to data loss, but it does not necessarily mean that the HDD has failed.
Findings:
* After a first scan error, drives are 39x more likely to fail within 60 days.
First errors in reallocations, offline reallocations, and prob ational counts are also strongly correlated to higher failure probabilities.
* A large fraction of our failed drives have shown NO SMART error signals watsoever.
* There was a lack of a consistent pattern of higher failure rates for higher temperature drives for for those drives at higher utilization levels.
* Some of the charts point to drive failure early on, a "survival of the fittest" perhaps.
http://labs.google.com/papers/disk_failures.pdf
SMART is not that reliable at predicting, of course if it shows a problem, it is just that much worse. I try to torture and kill a drive right off the bad, if it survives the first week of abuse, it is probably going to survive anyway. But being paranoid, never leave data to chance, assume that it will some day fail or at least need to be reformatted or retired.
Mac Pro 2GHz 4GB 10K Raptor 23" Cinema Mac OS X (10.4.8) WD RE RAID DW 4.0 APC RS1500 Vista

How do you open recovered files after using data rescue II?

i installed data rescue II because i had to restart my hard drive and my information did not transfer properly to the external hard drive. im pretty sure data rescue recovered all of my files but the manual and help windows will not scroll down so i have no idea how to get my files back onto my computer. please tell me how to use this program and get everything back to normal.

What is your Reader version? Is that all you get: "about ASCII filter"?

Recovering Livetype files with Data Rescue II??

Okay, here's a duzy for you tech gods. Does anyone know if this is possible? I was able to recover a lot of my media for my project...but I lost dozens of Livetype files to the trash.
Data Rescue II, my recovery software can recover a number of different file types...but makes no mention of Livetype. Anyone know if I can turn the recovered resource forks back into editable livetype files? So I'm wondering more about what exactly makes up a livetype file.
Here's the process Data Rescue uses:
"In OS X, when a file is deleted, for example by dragging it to the trash and emptying the trash, the file’s name and folder information is usually erased by the system, and is therefore irretrievably lost. However in most cases, the most important part of the file – its contents – are still present on the disk. Finding the file by its contents alone is in general a difficult task, requiring algorithms to recognize those contents among all the billions of bytes of data on the disk. This task requires algorithms that are tailored to each specific file type. Data Rescue X made a start at this by providing support for about
ten important file types that can be recovered by content."
And here is the information I could find on Mac files:
"In generic technical terms, Data Rescue’s content scan is potentially suitable for any file type that consists of a single fork. For files that have both a data and a resource fork, the forks may be recoverable separately by content scan, but Data Rescue has no means to connect the two pieces back together. Some “files” are in reality a collection of separate files which the Finder treats like a single file. This is called a “bundle”. The individual components of a bundle may be recoverable by content scan, but again Data Rescue has no automated way to associate these components back together into a bundle."

As I've previously mentioned, I don't know anything about DataResue.
But with FileSalvage, it's a fairly easy process. You don't need to know file info of any sort. Scroll about halfway down the FileSalvage website until you see this:
"Adding Custom File Formats
To recover files that may not already exist in the current list of ‘Supported File Formats’ the user can add them via the dialog drop down, doing so by dragging & dropping 10 or more files of the same format into the ‘Custom Format’ pane to the left side of the drop dialog. Once these 10 or more files of the same format have been dropped into the pane, the Process button will become highlighted and should then be clicked by the user. Upon completion of analysis the new format will be added to the supported formats pane."
Regards. Robert

Need to rescue Garage Band Files with Data Rescue II - what kind of files?

Hi all -
After a particularly gruesome computer crash, I am trying to reconstruct my lost files using Data Rescue II..... This program goes into the damaged hard drive and downloads all intact files it can find, but it is NOT able to label everything correctly. All it can do is divide things into folders - Audio files, document files, images, mail, misc., and movies. And within these folders are other folders - for instance, in the "Audio" rescued folder, there are hundreds of AIFF files, AIFF1 files, AIFF2, MP3, WAV, m4a, and m4p files.
My question is: can someone please tell me what the heck a Garage Band project file is? That would save me a lot of time in digging through all this material trying to find one....
(Don't get me wrong... I'm grateful to have stuff to dig through! I just hope my Garage Band files are intact and recoverable.)
Has anyone had success saving Garage Band files with Data Rescue II?
Thanks in advance.

Aaaagh!
I spoke too soon. Yes,I did indeed find the file that contained all the files I needed to retrieve (using Disk Rescue II). When my 6-hour download of the 78 GB folder finished, I check the files again, and they weren't located in the orphaned section, but in the Hard Drive section under the normal directory, in a folder called .Trashes - within that there was another folder called "501", which contained all the Garageband files I needed to retrieve. However, when I tried to open the downloaded "rescued" files, they were inside a folder called "Macintosh HD", which could not be opened, and I got a message that said "Could not be opened because you do not have sufficient access privileges." Not only that, but even after 6 hours of (apparently) downloading the 78 GB folder, my hard drive, which had close to 83 GB of free space, said STILL had almost that same amount.
So did it download anything or not? What was it doing all those 6 hours? I have a file that I can't open, but apparently it's going to be empty anyway.
Here's the full story, for anyone with the patience to listen and offer advice. It looks like now I'm looking for a way to 1) get the permissions to open the .trashes file so that I can download everything, or 2) figure out a way to get Disk Rescue II to open the files and download them regardless of the permissions.
Full Story -
I am pretty sure that my computer crash was caused by working with the newest version of Garageband 08. Ever since buying it and loading it, my computer has been acting funny whenever I use the Garage Band program - I could only record about one in three attempts since the computer kept freezing as soon as I finished recording a line. I would have to use force restart to get going again.
The day the computer crashed, I was working on a Garage Band project, which kept crashing, and I was also using Finale, Microsoft Word, and iTunes -- all of which are my normal procedure and I'd never had any problems with anything before loading the new Garage Band 08. (See my posts on other discussion topics for more details). After the last freeze, the computer crashed totally and could not be restarted - it would get to the gray screen with the spinning gear and just sit there while the fans ramped up to overload.
I used Disk Warrior to rescue whatever files I could onto an external hard drive, and I started to download all the Garage Band files. However, the "estimated time to completion" said over 6 hours , so I stopped the download after a minute or so and went on to rescue all the other files that were smaller in size and easier to download - I figured I'd set Disk Warrior to download the whole 78 GB set of Garage Band files overnight while I slept. But....when I went back to begin the download again, I noticed that the directory of Garage Band files went only to the letter "C" instead of all the way to "Z" like my original files had done during that earlier attempt to download. I am assuming that somehow, the directory for the files I download before aborting the attempt (A-C) got exchanged with the directories of the original version (A-Z), but the original directory was no where to be found.
I decided to try an archive install in the hopes that I could just restart my computer and get the files out by hand. The archive install went fine, and the computer started up fine and got to the log-in screen, which had changed. I now had two blanks - one for user name and one for password, instead of the choices of names. I tried all my user names and passwords, and asked my wife for her names and passcodes, but nothing worked. The computer had apparently re-set all its permissions and User accounts. I tried using Disk Utility to reset the password in its opening screens, but instead of getting several User options, the only one it allowed me to attempt was "System Administrator (root)", and even that wouldn't let me in to change any passwords.
That's when I downloaded Data Rescue II, which does seem to do a good job of locating lost files. However, since I didn't have permissions to open the computer the last time, I am still apparently facing the same thing when I try to access files copies OFF the computer.
So I'm not out of the woods yet. I can see the files on the Data Rescue screen, but I don't know whether they have permissions tied to them or not, and if they do, whether the system would let me since I don't know what the passwords and user names have defaulted back to.
Any advice? Please?

Data rescue

Hi everybody, I need urgent help from you expert guys.
Yesterday, I used the disk utility program to partition my external hard drive (500Gb) from one to two partitions. After this step all my data (allmost 300 Gigs backup files and others) were not available anymore. I assume, that the partition table was deleted by this action. I am using an iMac G4 and a fresh installed Leopard (Mac OS 10.5).
How can I recover my data on the external hard drive? I did not try anything else so far, to prevent things getting worse. I hope things are easy to get fixed!
Thanks a lot,
kaimich

I hope things are easy to get fixed!
They aren't. You clicked through a warning that partitioning the drive would destroy all data, and that's what happened.
Your best chance is to send the drive to a professional recovery service such as DriveSavers. Their services are very expensive.
You might be able to salvage something using do-it-yourself recovery software. I have no experience in this area, but I sometimes see mention of a product called "Data Rescue 3." I can't vouch for it and I don't know whether it works on a drive that has been partitioned.

Data rescue II don`t work

Hello, I want recover lost archives, data rescue foud this archives but I can`t recover because when I attempt the program say:
the destination you have chosen is part of the scanned drive or volumen
Writing there could cause loss of the data you are trying to recover. Please choose another destination
And I can`t recover my files . I haven`t any other computer or hard disk for to transfer the dates .
How can tranfer my dates of Data Rescue to my computer or to CD/DVD?
Thanks.
Message was edited by: Dalanina

Dalanina wrote:
I tried with dvd , data rescue don`t permission record dates in a dvd .
Because the usual way OS X records to a DVD is to make a hidden file with the contents of the DVD or CD. When you copy your material to the DVD or CD image, you're really copying to the hidden file. It's only when the computer actually burns the disk that it actually copies anything to the DVD or CD disk. Until then, all your information is still on your startup drive.
It would work a pen drive?
Yes, a USB pen drive should work.
charlie
charlie

Data Rescue II Question for Al Van Malsen?

Al Van Malsen,
Thanks. I'm using the Demo right now of Data rescue in target disk mode using my sister's computer. The quick scan revealed nothing but now I'm doing the thorough scan to see if anything pops up. I don't expect it to but at least I can see if it will work.
What about the unplugging and plugging my computer back in to get recovered files. I've noticed that happens when I unplug my Mac normally there is always recovered files in the trash. I'm not expecting this to be a solution just wondering.
Since you were so helpful on my other question I thought I'd post a seperate question.
S.

What about the unplugging and plugging my computer back in to get recovered files. I've noticed that happens when I unplug my Mac normally there is always recovered files in the trash. I'm not expecting this to be a solution just wondering.
The files you find in the Recovered Files folder are those previously in /private/tmp/ in Mac OS X or Temporary Items in Mac OS 9, and can be recovered manually by copying them out of that folder without a restart. Powering off the computer improperly won't recover anything except in very special cases, such as if you've deleted something in Mac OS X less than 30 seconds earlier.
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