Hey Tricia, If you or they have a couple of bucks to throw at this.. Spinrite. Hands down the BEST hard drive recovery option. https://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm Best $89 investment you can make if you ever work with any aging or bad hard drives. Boot off it and let it do its magic.
The down side to it is it works so well, then many people start coming to you to get their drives fixed. (Which is good if you want to charge for the service, bad if you are being too nice) :) Hope this helps, Jimmy On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 3:14 PM, Jer <[email protected]> wrote: > On 14-05-05 03:01 PM, Patricia Campbell wrote: >> >> Hello All, >> >> Someone has come to me with an hdd that is borked, kernel msgs >> attached. He cannot afford to pay to have it recovered: I do know >> about the guy in NDG but that is out of the question. So anybody out >> there have a favourite recovery program or two ?? > > > First thing to do is image it using ddrescue, then you can work on the image > instead of the dying drive. Then if you kill the drive trying to fix it you > have the data (or much of it) still. > > Jeremy > > _______________________________________________ > mlug mailing list > [email protected] > https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca
