[nylug-talk] Dead hard drive

[Peter Jay Salzman]

Thanks, everyone.

Looks like I have a lot of avenues to pursue.   When I'm done, I'll post a
nice summary of my adventures in file recovery to the list for others in the
future.

Pete



On Fri 14 Jul 06,  1:10 PM, kiryl <administrator at bsolution.net> said:
> 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:
> >>   
> >>
> >>>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.
> >>   
> >>
> >
> >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