Have you had a look at F.I.R.E. (http://biatchux.dmzs.com) or Plan-B (http://www.projectplanb.org)?? They are both bootable distros geared toward data forensics/recovery.
I've had some success using one of them (can't remember which) on a friend's XP hdd to retrieve some of her data. A bevy of tools are at your disposal with these distros ;) HTH, Chris On September 8, 2004 10:10 am, J. Rafael SÃnchez wrote: > I have a maxtor 250Gb, fat32 that windows xp corrupted ( according to the > tech support at maxtor - this is what windows xp does...Remind me why do we > use windows again...?) Anyway, They say that, according to the installation > manual they "strongly recommend to format these drives immediately as ntfs" > Well, I have purchased close to 20 of these drives in the last year for > many of my users. One of them, I guess, forgot to read the stinking manual. > > Using diskprobe, I've been able to see that the disk configuration > information has been zeroed out. I've been able to put back information > about the starting and ending head, cylinders, and sectors, and even the > system ID. What I don't know how to do is to put back the "Signature, > Starting offset, Partition length, starting sector and partition number. > > Do you know of a good recovery, diagnostic tool that would allow me to > manipulate the disk configuration information? Would you also be able to > recommend a data restoration service here in town or in Canada? > > Thanks in advance. > Rafael. > > > > > ____________________ > J. Rafael SÃnchez > Systems Administrator > > Itres Research Limited > (P) 403.250.9944 > (F) 403.250.9916 > ____________________
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