Try booting from a Knoppix disk, and try to drag files found on HD to another networked machine, or a second HD. Try it , if booting from knoppix hard drive is not effected as OS is run from CD. I have had good luck with this approch. Contact me if I can be of any assistance. Joseph Zachary- AAA Computer Repair & Services
-----Original Message----- From: Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sep 21, 2005 11:43 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [brlug-general] Hard disk recovery I have a new client from New Orleans that, lo and behold, found out his IT guy wasn't backing up his nightly SQL Server dumps. Well, they retrieved the server yesterday with an IDE drive. The question is: Can we get the guy's data back? He asked me to first try to spin it up. I was worried about that, but I'd heard of some success stories from other consultants helping NOLA clients. So we plugged the drive into a new PC and started the system. The drive spun up but we got a disk error before any OS boot. After that I powered down the system. At this point I'm thinking we would need a hard-disk recovery expert. I know there are some, but I'm not familiar with this. Who should we use? How much will this cost? Any information is appreciated! --- Puryear Information Technology, LLC Baton Rouge, LA * 225-706-8414 http://www.puryear-it.com Author of "Best Practices for Managing Linux and UNIX Servers" Download your free copy: http://www.puryear-it.com/bestpractices.htm _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
