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al_cam replied

28 February 2017, 07:48
Yep - that would have been useful information - NTFS
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NotAllThere replied

27 February 2017, 13:02
What file system?
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al_cam started a topic Zero byte file - restore? (Linux)

27 February 2017, 12:54
Zero byte file - restore? (Linux)

Hi,

An HDD on my home server died when I was backing it up and left a few 4GB files on the backup disk as 0 bytes.

I'm wondering if anyone can give any pointers on whether they can be recovered.

When created on the backup, they would have been on a new disk so I'm hoping they were saved contiguously. I'm wondering if there is any way to correct the file size (linux) or dd the data from the disk to a new file - not sure how to work out the starting address of the file.

Any smart technical bods got a solution?

Cheers,

Al.
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