Yep, there a lot of Live CD distros and recovery-specific tool sets out
there. I have used Knoppix (or a variant) before, and just yesterday I
was able to copy files from a failing laptop drive (NTFS file system
corruption) using Trinity Rescue Kit (Linux-based). In this case, I
plugged a USB flash drive into an old desktop PC, and then plugged the
failing 2.5" drive into a PATA controller via a little adapter and was
able to mount the file system and copy files from one to the other.
I do not have a USB enclosure for the 2.5" disk so I cannot test that, but
it did mount the USB flash drive just fine. With trinity, just type,
mountallfs from the command prompt and it will do its best to find
everything.
-Nate
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009, rodrick brown wrote:
I usually start by Booting with knoptix live cd and then mounting the
windows partition and scping the data off.
Sent from my iPhone 3GS.
On Sep 16, 2009, at 12:14 PM, Edward Ned Harvey <[email protected]>
wrote:
One of my friends windows machine died today – boots up only half wa
y through the windows splash screen and freezes. There is one file
he wants to recover out of it, but it seems to be suffering from har
dware failure because attaching the disk via USB enclosure to anothe
r computer will only let him load the USB mass storage device, and w
on’t go any further than that…
So my question is …
What are the software hard disk recovery applications that people
like, which may save his file(s) and/or his dollars for him?
Of course, free is awesome, but commercial might be ok too.
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