On Saturday 30 July 2005 10:10 am, Lee Wiggers wrote: | Happy Saturday. | | Can anyone point me to data recovery options? Hosed a | win2k drive this morning. I don't think it's panic data, | but I would like to give recovery a shot and the drive | doesn't appear to be physically damaged. | | I think drive was ntfs formatted. | | I googled a hundred win progs that all claim success, but | can't find a linux alternative. | | TIA | | Lee | | | | | __________________________________________________________ | Message transport security by GatewayDefender.com | 10:14:09 AM ET - 7/30/2005
For data recovery and troubleshooting inaccessible or nonoperational systems, I created my own custom Live CD using mklivecd from the projects CVS (not the version included with recent MDK versions) at http://livecd.berlios.de/. You can also use MDV Move, Knoppix, and other Live CD distributions. Most can be downloaded as an iso image file, then burned to CD or DVD. A live CD is an OS on a bootable CD. While it is not specifically a data recovery tool, it can be used for that purpose. A live CD can also be used to try out Linux without installing any thing on the computer. The Live CD's performance will usually be noticeably slower than an installed OS (FYI). Boot from the live CD. Mount the partition which contains the data you want to recover. Now you can either copy the data to another partition, or use K3B or friends to select the data to be recovered and burn to CD or DVD. HTH, -- Ernie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ICQ 41060744 Registered Linux User 247790
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