On 17 August 2011 11:49, Roy Britten <[email protected]> wrote: > Nice opportunity for someone here to expound the benefits of Open > Source s/w and help out a non-profit org. > > A friend who works with a local children's athletics club has > performed an ill-advised action and has lost the contents of her HDD. > I don't have details of OS or what happened, but many files have been > lost including years of data. I suspect (without evidence) that the > data are on disk but unlinked, and may be at least partially > recoverable with the right tools and skills. > > Contractors/businesses on-list, or people who have recommendations for > a file recovery service, please contact me off-list. In additional to > reasonable commercial rates I'm happy to provide helpful people with > the beverage of your choice in return for helping out the very > distraught lady. > > There's room here for also setting up an open-source solution for the > club (including backups!). > > Thanks all, and apologies for the commercial solicitation on this list.
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk and if it's a FAT filesystem http://sourceforge.net/projects/fatback/ The former is on the System Rescue Disk. I may be able to help. Whether or not I, or anybody else, can be successful depends on how much activity has taken place on the machine since the 'accident'. -- Sincerely, Christopher Sawtell _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
