Google search 'file recovery knoppix' for further reading. The Live CD includes some recovery tools. Especially Knoppix has good reputation of being able to recover failed disks or file systems. Popular Live CD's are Knoppix, Ubuntu and Fedora. If you don't have access to a Linux computer, you can download a Live CD which is just the fundamentals to boot up a Linux OS without touching your current system. If you have access to a Linux box, try to mount the HDD there and (with a little luck) you can either copy the iso files directly or mount the iso's individually and copy the content of the iso's to another disk. If you haven't formatted the original, faulty drive yet or any of the recovery tools you have tried further have corrupted the data, I would give this method a try: Any insights, educated guesses, further resources to recommend? Thanks. At some point I'll have to cut my losses, reformat both drives, and get on with my work. I'm getting really frustrated with this recovery process - I've been struggling with it since February and every try takes days. iso files are the whole point of my data recovery effort. What happened and is there a way to correct and use the. In the rewrite process something has changed in the file identifiers (I'm guessing?). I get error messages that say 'UDF achor tag ID is incorrect' and 'block length incorrect for program length'. Now I'm trying to use the recovered files (specifically '.iso' DVD disk images of DVDS I've created of archived shows produced here at my theater) and the burning software (Nero or ImgBurn) doesn't recognize the. I'm working in Windows XP Pro on a Dell Precision 470 workstation. It all seemed to work flawlessly, (it took 2 days to scan and two days to recover). I selected the 'excellent' files (all but about 10 Gb looked fully recoverable), and recovered them to the new drive. It read the corrupted drive and listed all the recoverable files, rating their health and likely success of recovery. I got a second 1TB drive, and scanned the troubled drive with DataRescue PC, the recovery software Lacie recommended. I had a Lacie 1TB drive, with about 900Gb used, that suddenly the system wouldn't recognize. I'm looking for a way to repair or recover reconstructed.

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