[nylug-talk] Dead hard drive

[kiryl]

I have managed to find a way to recover a disks with the following:

1. let the disk rest for a little bit
2. use dd_rescue from this distribution  
http://www.inside-security.de/applicationlist.html
3.  if it's a windows hdd and you partition f***ed use this tool 
http://www.file-recovery.net/ (yes you have to pay lie $40) but it will 
scan the entire disk you have created in step  2 and find *a lot* of files
4. i'm still looking for a tool that can do that on linux partitions.

Joseph M. Gaffney wrote:

>On Wednesday 12 July 2006 21:45, Michael Bacarella wrote:
>  
>
>>On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 07:18:07PM -0400, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
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>>
>>>But I'd like to get a 2nd opinion before I admit I couldn't do
>>>something with Linux that he could do with Windows.  Rubs me the wrong
>>>way.
>>>      
>>>
>>What rubs me the wrong way is someone trying to get a highly specialized
>>computer service that can run thousands of dollars per recovery done
>>for free by playing on people's OS insecurities.
>>    
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>
>What rubs me the wrong way is when people just don't get it.  Purchasing a 
>program for windows vs. using open source tools, NOT sending out a drive with 
>some pics on it to a data recovery service costing $1500 for a review of the 
>drive within 24hrs, who will use a similar set of tools FIRST.
>
>I just did this myself the other day for my roommate.  Of course, his problem 
>was NTFS, and Windows no longer booted.  Slax, my usb adapted 30GB notebook 
>drive, and a few moments explaining what I was doing later, and his pics were 
>recovered.  Do you think I should have sent out the drive for that?
>
>Relax yourself.
>
>-Joseph M. Gaffney
>aka CuCullin
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Sincerely,
Kiryl Hakhovich
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