So I managed to find an old hard drive that was in the computer I used while raiding elemtental PoP content with Stamm on AK. Does anyone know of a free data recovery tool that I can use to do a deep scan and recover all these files rather than just view what the files are?
that would be good to use. Torven would love to see those since it would be useful for both server code and database.
You can try this if the files end up being less than 2GB: http://www.easeus.com/datarecoverywizard/free-data-recovery-software.htm Or this, but its more limited as to what it can recover: https://www.piriform.com/recuva Most of the free ones though don't allow full hard drive scans from my experience. Ontrack data recovery is a common paid for one that works well.
i had the logs divided up by mob, so the files are all pretty small. I think I may have found a free one. Thanks for your help
Falcon Four is a great suite of bootable tools for repair/recover or just about anything. http://falconfour.com/falconfours-ultimate-boot-cd-v4-61-patch/ Full link is below the patch.
SO, I managed to "recover" some files with raid logs in them, but the text looks like this: s+ç÷;I“¸≈'5gLúäÛMj†ƒ«ˇ¢I;'§ÚûÁ9ã»m»fl∂C+pUKƒÜ›°[sÍ¡ziö,¿bH˙F•é@{0x∑‹Mâø±5·G±õqØÖ8¬‘Ü˚∑‘¥s´ΩÅ¢u¶Â˘‚†˝PCà¿œ'≠îÓ±;èS¶èXo°jit°⁄G-äφöˇ7“V Í™÷‘„P{‡ä˚òeΩQJÌÁ|X9˛çj‘8¨±©$˙ ∑Èb7eu«u‰(.9}™± Ä<⁄ÕXø~V"ãÔ3mûÏ»Ë∞™Óa5FLïjQfl‚Y≠ó§Rírq∂Eû˛{h,‡B Bª’ц´ãå˙˛éfl®Ã˘É¨Ôó@+¶Y·.˝^∆’‰èp€ ≤∆Æ0n≠ÄÌÌ3A*âEBuMà8–p∞úÍ˙⁄›G;§¥fiïZÉnÇ*õgaÊπtCˇ”C?B5AK„]∂´Ã`ÿuÒ4Gfl˚.qÕ≤ Ñ≠é∏=Ü÷0¡˙«ˆBÛBG””=≈´·~Í™Á,«ëAí∂¨‡[P.Ò°;flœ∫üŒ4ïI√úêÎúçóeŒF∂J`„F`6îY0Oäî›e∆Ó¯‰JL^™ª˜*˙∫ò.˝í±–Ø«¬P'!R"∑3d*?yÕL.ÜvónÎaOÖ®ã@òaÒ@ˆó˚xVc”¥ºò~.ÛÒG⁄-ºßQȈÍ@[üÿ Yáá{G"¸^8”∂çw^ƒ–√óFe~â=¥∞±˝˙´x°\ßG|QË! bò3ÑÆ)»·fl>\Õ ’‘ãio j9ìWCOY9ñ`fç∫h`{5í DÊn÷Á0‘le?’MlÑàßÌ3OkÃÖZ?˚0åV\5’-$n¨≠´ˆñƒ{8«ó2∂rƒ?™’æ7Æà∏ÛGéçËË}zÃìÇË;¯z0±Ù4Íb)ˆïè–[–¸L©ˆoR®$:3LïTÛΩ«4¶YÅ·∑±6ß÷+ºÀ(sN\®Íbâlsx_≥◊Ï◊≥4jŒÃï•æJffi‰Átz=—`nSâ¢çzÓ⁄ùé2©ØÃ5˜R‘¬[E˜«Ÿ?ƒ‚≤RScĵØU(˜Œ‰Ä^»°¢§æ—q∏x‰å8öH€ˆ[†ÛHBÿ≥çN¬å0¢É@ g§Ú˙nÿÈ1XCÒâ°^˘5E®ocl÷- I'm viewing them with textedit on a mac. I previously used textedit to view these logs without problem. Not sure where to go from here.
Looks like that part of the file is either corrupted or has been overwritten by something else that isn't ascii text, such as a binary.