"Burnes, James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> dd it, loop it, fsck it. > That won't help you if a circuit board, spindle, read head or other > mechanism fails.
Sure, but that is not a simple case of bad blocks;) > Then you better hope the data wasn't *that* valuable or you know > good platter recovery shop. We got IBAS in Norway; the price for an evaluation is close to a handful of gold. > Backups are cheap. Recovery is very expensive. Sure, but your not factoring in murphys law here. A tool to undelete would come many people in handy who even got proper backup solutions. Besides, a recovery is not the same as a feature to undelete. Such a feature would maybe save a days work, which is a lot in some circles. -- Esben Stien is [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.esben-stien.name irc://irc.esben-stien.name/%23contact [sip|iax]:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
