At $89, I would go buy a 1tb or so drive, and play from within linux. Specifically, take dd and clone the drive to a file so you can use loopback device on it. Then proceed with extracting out the partitions if you can. If the filesystem isn't hosed, you can just mount and copy away the files. If the filesystem is compromised, then you might look at some of the software meant to search for deleted/lost/mangled files.
I can't remember what app I used for a friend, but he had some not so happy drives that needed to be cloned, then scanned for files. I was able to recover files he forgot had been on the drive. All that for the price of some spare dive space. Then once you recover the files, you trash the clone and reclaim your space. http://www.linux.com/news/enterprise/storage/8257-how-to-recover-lost-files-after-you-accidentally-wipe-your-hard-drive ----- Original Message ----- > Thanks to everyone's replies. > > I don't have a copy of Spinrite and at $89 it is a bit pricy, but I am > considering it. > > I have managed to get it to reboot (most of the time) into windows, > but Clonezilla has issues > being able to access it. The drive is a PATA (ney, IDE) drive. > Clonezilla can see it, knows > what it is (by model number it found) but still seems as though it > requires the CHS information > to work and that is being reported as invalid. > > I was really wanting to clone it onto a new drive, but the best I can > do is back it up, install the new drive, then restore everything. > > Any suggestions on making this easier? I am using crashplan, but it > doesn't do 'bare metal restores' where an image from Clonezilla would. > > Again, Thanks to all who replied! > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] For more options, visit this > group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en -- Steven Critchfield [email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en
