Can't recover deleted RW2 files
Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2011 12:32 am
I deleted a directory full of Panasonic Raw image files (RW2 extension) on a dlink-323 NAS with two 1TB drives in Raid 1 configuration. Disks are basically ext2 format. So I removed one of the two drives, which should have identical contents, and put it in a USB enclosure and hooked it up to a windows PC. R-Studio could successfully scan the drive. However, it could not find and recover the RW2 files correctly.
I'm expecting to find files like P1020222.RW2 that are approximately 14MB in size. However, if I look in the Extra Files Found folder in R-Studio, it does show a bunch of rw2 files, but the names are different, such as 161976.rw2, and the files sizes are very unusual. There are lots of 512Byte files and many larger ones that vary in size form 200KB to 700KB. If I recover any of these files, they are not usable.
My theory is that R-Studio is miss-interpreting the structure of these RW2 files and chopping them up into a bunch of smaller pieces.
Any advice on what to do?
I'm expecting to find files like P1020222.RW2 that are approximately 14MB in size. However, if I look in the Extra Files Found folder in R-Studio, it does show a bunch of rw2 files, but the names are different, such as 161976.rw2, and the files sizes are very unusual. There are lots of 512Byte files and many larger ones that vary in size form 200KB to 700KB. If I recover any of these files, they are not usable.
My theory is that R-Studio is miss-interpreting the structure of these RW2 files and chopping them up into a bunch of smaller pieces.
Any advice on what to do?