Recover Deleted VHD file

[John Edwards]

Hi,

I have accidentally deleted a vhd file that I critically need. I have a backup, but it is a week out of date and it would be great to get the live file back.

MY SETUP:
I have a stand alone Xenserver (5.5) with internal EXT3 storage repositories. On a weekly basis it dumps some vhd's with critical data to a backup unit.

I have accidentally deleted one of the live vhds. I instantly shutdown the Xenserver and removed the disk in question - this leads me to believe my data is still on the disk I just can't get at it.

Does anyone have any experience of recovering these .vhd files using foremost or scalpel or alternative...

TIA for any assistance offered.

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Edited by: John Edwards on Feb 1, 2010 11:56 AM

I am now working on some test HDDs with some old vhd files on them. I have deleted the files and I'm trying to recover them using ext3undel ...

Not too confident that it will work though, I'll post the results. all suggestions welcome

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Edited by: John Edwards on 02-Feb-2010 01:35

No joy with ext3undel

[Alan Lantz]

try r-linux. http://www.r-tt.com/

This runs from Windows. I think UBCD4Win may possibly have it integrated in a bood cd. I had an external Maxtor drive crash and this software recovered 90% of the data on the drive. I was shocked that those external hard drives use EXT3.

Alan Lantz
SysAdmin
City of Rogers, AR

[John Edwards]

Thanks for the reply Alan.

I'll give it a go after my current attempt on some test data using Disk Internals Linux Recovery 2.2 has finished.

My concern is that having actually deleted the file with the equivalent of the rm command (xe vdi-destroy) all the the inode pointers to my data will have been zeroed out. Effectively I have swept away all my breadcrumbs and all I have left (I think) is the data in the blocks.

I'll try anything though =)

[John Edwards]

Disk Internals Linux Recovery wasn't much help either.

!!! UPDATE !!!

I have had some joy with EASUS Data Recovery Pro. Using the demo it has found the deleted file in my demo environment and displays it's correct size.

http://www.easeus.com/datarecoverywizardpro/

Going to attempt a recovery once I have purchased a Licence.

Edited by: John Edwards on Feb 2, 2010 10:29 AM

[John Edwards]

Got my vhd back =)

[Alan Lantz]

Thanks John,

I have used EASUS for resizing partitions and its excellent. I have never used them for recovery. I will keep that in mind for myself if/when I need to.

Alan Lantz
SysAdmin
City of Rogers, AR

[William Smith1709152788]

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[Mack John]

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