<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">so your saying that windows ata drivers are so bad, there good?<br><br>or linux ata drivers are so good, there bad?<br><br>or in fact linux ata drivers are so bad, there bad?<br><br>do you know if use any recovery software? <br><br>--- On <b>Thu, 26/3/09, James Le Cuirot <i><chewi@aura-online.co.uk></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">From: James Le Cuirot <chewi@aura-online.co.uk><br>Subject: Re: [dundee] Hard Drive recovery<br>To: dundee@lists.lug.org.uk<br>Date: Thursday, 26 March, 2009, 4:06 PM<br><br><pre>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>dundee@lists.lug.org.uk http://dundee.lug.org.uk<br>https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dundee<br>Chat on IRC, #tlug on dundee.lug.org.uk<br></pre></blockquote></td></tr></table><br>