On Wed, 2011-08-17 at 14:13 +1200, C. Falconer wrote: > Christopher Sawtell wrote, On 08/17/2011 01:39 PM: > > Whether or not I, or anybody else, can be successful depends on how > > much activity has taken place on the machine since the 'accident'. > > I completely agree with Chris' comments. > > Take the drive out of the machine and do *not* boot it. Instead > attach it to a USB reader and access it that way. > > Luckily the disk is not failing - so you have time to recover files > using whatever app you like. > > I've done at least a dozen of these "oh ****" recoveries, some are > almost perfect and some you get barely anything off the drive. > > My first step is to dd an image and work on that. But yes, you should get a fair bit back.
Steve -- Steve Holdoway BSc(Hons) MNZCS <[email protected]> http://www.greengecko.co.nz MSN: [email protected] Skype: sholdowa
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