This IS the Avid L2: Re: [Avid-L2] OT: Seeking Professional Media Aware Drive Recovery

Wednesday, March 11, 2015

Re: [Avid-L2] OT: Seeking Professional Media Aware Drive Recovery

If you are in NYC, I know that Tekserve on 23rd Street has successfully recovered two drives (Glyph) of original footage for an old colleague of mine. (They were on Macs, though.) Maybe you can try them?

Jaclyn Lee

Middlemarch Films

On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 11:53 AM, Jeff Young jeffyoungct@aol.com [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

A client has lost a 3TB NTFS-format P2 archive drive -- ironically a mirrored one -- and we are looking at recovery options.

It seems to be a corrupt directory issue; but, I am not having any luck finding a Disk Warrior replacement Windows 7.

Prosoft Engineering Data Rescue PC and Piriform Recuva seem to be able to scan the drive for usable data. I have Data Rescue running now; but, from prior experience, I expect that we are going to end up with a raw dump of files that no longer have their file names and folder structures. (If you think that it is a problem when the camera operator renames the CONTENTS folder...)

I have used Data Rescue Center with success in the past. I called them and received a well-disclaimed "maybe."

Does anybody here have any experience with NTFS directory repair software, like Alsoft Disk Warrior, or with a recovery service that is professional media aware?

Thanks!

-Jeff