<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">well dd_rhelp is cugging along quite nicely now, it's not the fastest thing in the world, just getting over 500kb/s second. but for recocovery I suppose that aint to bad.<br><br>If my calculations are correct I'll get a gigabyte every 17mins.<br><br>thus, to get 200g , It's going to take 57 hours..<br><br>Ouch!<br><br>Cheers,<br>Lee<br><br><br><br>--- On <b>Thu, 26/3/09, j.williamson@connectfree.co.uk <i><j.williamson@connectfree.co.uk></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">From: j.williamson@connectfree.co.uk <j.williamson@connectfree.co.uk><br>Subject: Re: [dundee] Hard Drive recovery<br>To: "Tayside Linux User Group" <dundee@lists.lug.org.uk><br>Date: Thursday, 26 March, 2009, 5:03 PM<br><br><pre>I tried the suggestions given to me by the TLUG to recover
data from a HDD <br>that was clucking more than a hen coup - due to my inexperience, I failed <br>and haded back the disk. It was the physical disk that was broken and I <br>couldn't get hold of a spare to fix it. I've used windoze and linux<br>tools <br>before and I find that both seem to fulfill different requirements. <br><br>Thanks to the guys for their suggestions - and late nights... :o) <br><br>James Williamson <br><br> <br><br>James Le Cuirot writes: <br><br>> On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:50:40 +0000 (GMT)<br>> Lee Hughes <toxicnaan@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: <br>> <br>>> what's you choice of free linux recovery tools?<br>> <br>> I'm going to get skinned alive for saying this but... <br>> <br>> A few months ago, a friend of mine sent a hard drive to me in the post.<br>> The poor fool figured it seemed solid enough so he hardly padded it at<br>> all. When it came through the letter box and landed on my wooden
floor<br>> with a loud thud, I knew this was unlikely to have a happy ending. If<br>> only it had been a solid state drive! <br>> <br>> I tried to get some life out of it in Linux but it would only get as<br>> far as reading the partition table. Mounting the thing just kept making<br>> it reset itself and it was making some horrible clicking noises. <br>> <br>> I wrote it off as a loss but my unwashed Windows friend offered to give<br>> it a try. I thought he was going to try and swap in some spare parts<br>> but he didn't even need to. He had little trouble reading it in<br>> Windows, and was even able to access the ReiserFS partition! <br>> <br>> I was consequently able to restore my web forum to its former glory.<br>> Who'd have thought it, eh? <br>> <br>> James <br>> <br>> _______________________________________________<br>> dundee GNU/Linux Users Group mailing list<br>>
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