On 16/04/2008, Todd Walton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 9:01 PM, Todd Walton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] fsck -rC /dev/hda3 > > My father's hard drive ist kaput. The root partition had a hardware > failure and there's no way on this green earth we will ever recover > the filesystem information. But this partition had tons and tons of > pictures on it. It is vital that I get them back.* So I believe I am > forced into the stream-the-bits-and-look-for-EXIF-data trick. Or > however that works. I believe we've discussed this before, and I > intend to have a go at the archives.
I'd suggest SpinRite (<http://www.grc.com/spinrite.htm>). You need a Windows XP machine to create its boot CD, but when you boot to the CD it's the best hardware-level disk recovery utility there is. It doesn't matter what filesystem you're using, as it looks directly at blocks and sectors and recovers/moves raw data. Give that a shot before trying something drastic... by the way, I've heard reports of it taking a very long time to recover some disks, so don't get impatient if the process drags on for a few days. -- Brad Beyenhof http://augmentedfourth.com Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything. ~ Sydney Smith, English essayist (1771-1845) -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
