PQmagic caused garbled file recovery

PowerQuest's PQmagic (also known as partition magic, currently common versions are 7. 0 and 8. 0) is a common partition maintenance software that can not damage In the case of data, partition, partition merge, and adjust the hard disk.

A failure phenomenon:

There are many newcomers trying pqmagic to convert the ntfs format partition into a fat32 format partition, resulting in garbled errors or even loss of a large number of files. Many files or folders with Chinese names will become garbled like ??!!! after conversion, cannot be renamed, and cannot be deleted.

Two failure reasons:

Pqmagic's partition format conversion function is often used, but the PQ conversion format (from NTFS to FAT32) does not support Chinese file names, so the partition conversion is complete. After that, the file names are all garbled and cannot be entered, and other operations cannot be deleted and performed, but the contents of the files are all there. Scanning under W2k reports that the file system is normal and causes great trouble.

Three Complete Avoidance Methods:

The first is to wait for PowerQuest to launch a real Simplified Chinese version instead of the popular Chinese version.

The second thing is to remove all the contents of the partition or change to the English name before the operation, so that you can be sure of nothing, of course, the hard disk damage has nothing to do with me.

But the problem now is that garbled files have appeared, so how can we solve them? Please see the fourth part:

Four emergency methods for garbled files:

Suggestions:

At this time, in order to save the data, please do not format the hard disk, currently I Learn about three solutions.

Method 1:

Download the software finaldata, scan the hard disk partition, and choose to restore the files you want to restore. Because the name of the destroyed partition Chinese folder has become garbled!?!!!, some files may be difficult to find. Not all files can be retrieved, or the files found are not destroyed, look at the character and luck (hoho, at the same time, you will also accidentally find a lot of surprises or rumors of sesame seeds咚咚).

Note:

1. Do not write to the destroyed partition before using final data recovery, because this will increase your loss;

2. Some files may be recovered after more than one, pay attention to patience.

Method 2:

Use norton ghost (any version, currently used 8.0 Chinese version) to make the destroyed partition image to another partition, then open with ghost explorer, export those ??? file Clip, pay attention to change the name on the line.

Description:

There is no limit to writing data to the hard disk, but you need to ensure that there is enough space to save the image of the damaged partition. If not, black a student's hard drive to do a secondary hard drive or go to the village to buy a mobile hard drive!

Method 3:

Start with linux, mount the fat32 partition, specify codepage = cp437

to see the full Chinese file name and directory, cp -r to Linux partition above;

umount fat32 partition, mount again, specify codepage = cp936

cp -r Go back, get it.

This method can be completely lossless recovery

With a slogan: Linux can use Knoppix Live CD. Knoppix is ​​a Linux system that runs directly on the CD. There are many such systems, collectively called Linux Live CDs, which are very similar to the Windows PE + ERD CoMMander combination. Knoppix is ​​one of the most popular systems. After garbled, use the Knoppix Live CD to boot the system. It will automatically mount the floppy hard disk partition after conversion. After entering the system, you will see some files and folders with the name "?". Rename it directly! Then refresh, if you find that there are additional "?" folders and files, rename them again until such files no longer appear. Hey, then look at the contents of these renamed files, folders, is not the previous Windows can not access and display garbled stuff.