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Zero byte file - restore? (Linux)

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    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.
    Back at the coal face

    #2
    What file system?
    Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!

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      #3
      Yep - that would have been useful information - NTFS
      Back at the coal face

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