GetDataBack has proved useful time and time again for us, even when windows won't recognize the partition.
Eric Dropps Systems Administration Group Harvard University FAS Computer Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott Ehrlich Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2007 3:16 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [BBLISA] Data recovery help request 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 _______________________________________________ bblisa mailing list [email protected] http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa _______________________________________________ bblisa mailing list [email protected] http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa
