You could also look into UBCD, Ultimate Boot CD. it's got a pretty good set of tools.
> I just received a call from an employee in absolute panic. Her hard > drive crashed and naturally she didn't have any backups. There isn't > much sensitive information on there, but she has a 5 month old baby, > whose whole record of existence is on that HD (in digital picture > format!) > > Does anyone know of or have good experience with a good place to take a > HD to try to recover data? She's in the Wilmington area, but I don't > think she cares where it's recovered. From what she said to me, it > doesn't sound like the drive itself went completely kaput, but more then > likely some sort of OS corruption, it sees the boot partition and tries > to load windows then dies. Dell swears that the drive is bad, and will > be out later this week to replace it. She is obviously a windows > person, but when the dust settles, I'll definitely be FedEx-ing her a > knoppix CD (don't think now is the time to play the "if you were using > linux" card). > > Both she and I thank you in advance for any pointers. > > Steve > > -- > TriLUG mailing list : > http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ > : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc +------------------------------------------------+ Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. Groucho Marx -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
