A family member's hard drive has started to fail. I connected it to my
Windows box and Windows claimed it was a new drive and wanted to reformat it.
I said no.
I then connected to my Linux box and it saw 4 partitions - two "unknown", one
Novell, and one NTFS.
I used dd to try and preserve the partitions; one of the unknowns was fine, the
other gave me a disk i/o error immediately and stopped; the ntfs one got much
of the way through but also gave a disk i/o error. I didn't bother with the
tiny Novell one.
With all of this, is there a better way to try and recover the data? My next
step is to use strings to try and recover whatever data I can. Is there any
tool and/or method I can use to try and preserve the existing data as though it
came back from a data recovery shop, without having to spend much money? The
drive is still pretty good, so I can always redo the data retrieval.
The goal is data retrieval with little or no cost.
I'll be happy to consider Linux, Mac, and Windows options.
Thanks.
Scott
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