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Post by Nitroeus on Apr 21, 2016 22:24:19 GMT
Hi! So I talked about trying to recovery AO Beta in the past from an old 20GB harddisc that contained it at some time. Now I seriously don't know if I can recover it or not but many people asked me to do it and even if I not believe I can find it again (Because after AO Beta got deleted from a formating I kept using it because I not knew at the time that it was only a beta xD) So there is the screenshots about ze old harddisc : ![]()   And Here is The Image of the amazing outdated IDE/ATA Cable :  • Progress of Recovery •
Find the old harddisc ||
Setup my PC for recovery purpose ||
Start recovery attempt ||
Wait Until the recovery runs & look through the recovered files ||
Report Status ||
Symbols : || Done [] Current x[]x Error in recovery, trying to repeat
Meanwhile Please vote if I should upload screenshots in the meantime ?
I found almost nothing except a corrupted screenshot that I was suprised to even find. ( maybe upload it later)
But I find a few interesting thing on the checked harddisc including one of my Abe's Oddysee hardmode website prototype and its supposed to be webpage.
Based on the recovery tool I used the 20GB harddisc had a total of 540GB written on it since its first use and over 2TB data readed.
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Post by Nitroeus on Apr 21, 2016 22:25:05 GMT
Missing Harddisc screenshot :   |
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Post by wEight on Apr 22, 2016 8:02:04 GMT
Well I'm kind of really interested in this, post any new stuff you find.
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Post by SgabbitGabbiar on Apr 22, 2016 12:04:00 GMT
Interesting! Thanks !
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Post by Nitroeus on Apr 22, 2016 15:16:39 GMT
Alright the only 'usable' thing I found on that harddisc is a screenshot (or cam file?) that is probably from the 'Paramonia Area' , almost nothing left from the image because its other parts was probably overwritten many times. OddOddysee.zip (204.2 KB) PS : I wanted to upload the image itself but I always get an upload error message , so I uploaded it in zip. |
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Post by kapteeni13 on Apr 22, 2016 19:26:19 GMT
Thread i follow for sure.  That screen might be one or other of the lift screen but can't be sure which one.  |
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Post by wEight on Apr 28, 2016 20:20:26 GMT
Thread i follow for sure. That screen might be one or other of the lift screen but can't be sure which one. Judging by those wooden misc objects on the left it could be the path after jumping without letting go of the left arrow key with elum. |
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Post by kapteeni13 on Apr 29, 2016 17:53:49 GMT
I uploaded the corrupted CAM as .bmp  Also i checked Paramonia level but i could not find anything special. Anything is possible. It could be what wEight said or some unknown unused screen that was in game. I found also that color of background was also different compared to full version Paramonia. |
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Post by wEight on Apr 30, 2016 11:00:25 GMT
Strange... I just converted mine to bmp (Downloaded the same) and it looks like this. (It looked like that before converting too, just wanted to see if converting it would make it look like yours. Yours is more visible and has those little glitches. When I downloaded it it looks like this  |
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Post by kapteeni13 on Apr 30, 2016 18:35:27 GMT
Original .PNG file acts weird when i try upload it anywhere and returns always somekind of error. Even the file seems corrupt partially and working at the same time for somereason. |
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Post by wEight on Apr 30, 2016 20:29:09 GMT
I uploaded it on tinypic without errors
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Post by Nitroeus on May 1, 2016 2:08:31 GMT
The reason why it acts like that is simply because it was a data that was partially overwritten (magnetically , not a simple file overwrite) so most programs and services simply don't know what do do with the rest of the file.
Only 23-52kb is actually visible from the image the rest is just random magnetic noise (Or corrupt data that holds magnetic noise).
For example a calculator can calculate 2+2 or 7+7 but when it tries to calculate 4+4+Waffles it would return error or corrupt data because it simply can't handle "Waffles" and not even know what it is.
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Post by unidentifiedai on May 4, 2016 6:09:10 GMT
The reason why it acts like that is simply because it was a data that was partially overwritten (magnetically , not a simple file overwrite) so most programs and services simply don't know what do do with the rest of the file. Only 23-52kb is actually visible from the image the rest is just random magnetic noise (Or corrupt data that holds magnetic noise). For example a calculator can calculate 2+2 or 7+7 but when it tries to calculate 4+4+Waffles it would return error or corrupt data because it simply can't handle "Waffles" and not even know what it is. Have you tried manual fixing ? One wrong byte in specific spots could ruin the entire image , you could even try to fix it manually with the program you developed (The one that stores image bytes and converts it to base64 text and vice-versa) |
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Post by Nitroeus on May 4, 2016 14:26:33 GMT
The reason why it acts like that is simply because it was a data that was partially overwritten (magnetically , not a simple file overwrite) so most programs and services simply don't know what do do with the rest of the file. Only 23-52kb is actually visible from the image the rest is just random magnetic noise (Or corrupt data that holds magnetic noise). For example a calculator can calculate 2+2 or 7+7 but when it tries to calculate 4+4+Waffles it would return error or corrupt data because it simply can't handle "Waffles" and not even know what it is. Have you tried manual fixing ? One wrong byte in specific spots could ruin the entire image , you could even try to fix it manually with the program you developed (The one that stores image bytes and converts it to base64 text and vice-versa) Not yet... maybe I create a program based on my method to test out every possible working modification and save everytime it finds one result that is savable as image. |
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