Re: [RLUG] data recovery

[Josh Scilacci]

You could try that method of freezing the harddrive and then trying to recover data from it. I remember hearing that it did work, and after looking here is what I was looking for  http://www.meetmyattorney.com/slink/mt-archives/000275.html   It might work. At the current moment it probably better then nothing.  As Sebastian can also confirm those companies that do data recovery cost way too damn much.

Josh

On 11/12/05, Sebastian Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Grant,

Read/write failures are a bad sign.  You have some degree of hardware
failure on your hands.  If the heads can't read what's stored on the
platters you'll be SOL... unless the person your restoring for has a fat
wallet.

There are some data forensics toolkits, but if the hardware is borked they
aren't going to help you.

I'd suggest a new drive, and a backup scheme.

- Sebastian


On Sat, 12 Nov 2005, Grant Kelly wrote:

> My friend brought over a crashed windows box and wants me to see if i
> can recover any files from the hard drives. I got them mounted in
> knoppix and was able to copy some files to a network share, but after
> a while, there are a lot of read/write errors and cp fails.
>
> Does anyone know a better way to recover files off of a failing hard
> drive in knoppix (or any other live CD)?
>
> Thanks,
> Grant
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