On 17 August 2011 14:21, Steve Holdoway <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
two quick questions:- 1) Geographically, where is the machine? 2) Realistically, how important is the data? -- Sincerely, Christopher Sawtell _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
