I too had remarkable results running TestDisk. Had an older drive that seemed to fail, but TestDisk scanned the drive, found all the partitions, recreated the partitition table, saved it and allowed me to reboot the drive. I then moved all the data to a new drive, and low level formatted this drive for temporary storage.
Scott On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 11:11 AM, Jonathan Duncan <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 01 Feb 2011, at 09:37, Merrill Oveson wrote: > >> Pluggers: >> >> Can anyone recommend a place to take a bad hard disk to recover the data? >> >> Someplace local that's fast. >> > > > Take it to your computer and run TestDisk on it. Awesome sweet tool. > > http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk > > I have used it for data recovery successfully on more than one occasion. > Saved my bacon it has. > > Jonathan > > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
