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Posted by Ken on November 29, 2003 at 16:31:26:
Due to faulty RAM, my 200GB HD (160GB used) containing about 25,000 mp3 files became corrupted. The machine rebooted and CHKDSK deleted thousands of orphan files. I was burning a DVD when it crashed and I thought it was the 5GB file that was being fixed. I have replaced the RAM and installed a new HD. When the machine booted there were only about 10GB of files left on the drive. I have tried a dozen HD recovery tools with little success. Getdataback, recovermyfiles and r-ntfs actually found about 5GB of files. The others found very few or none. (I have not written to the drive since the crash.)
I am looking for a program that can scan the drive (or an image of it made with one of the tools that creates disk image files) and extract .MP3 files based on headers, CRCs, and ID3 tags.
These files are all audio books, many 10 hours long. File sizes range from 5MB to 200MB. The drive was pretty new and 90% of the data was copied to it when I installed it so there is little fragmentation. I suspect most of the MP3 files are contigious. Some of the recovery tools have identified a few thousand files, but those files are most often many individual MP3 files contatenated together. I have tried mp3splt with some success on these files. It has taken me about 2 years to rip or download these files. I would greately appreciate any pointers or suggestions as to how to proceed. I know I could probably send the drive to a professional recovery provider, but I fear that would cost a fortune for the amout of data and number of files I have.
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