[dundee] Hard Drive recovery

[j.williamson at connectfree.co.uk]

I tried the suggestions given to me by the TLUG to recover data from a HDD 
that was clucking more than a hen coup - due to my inexperience, I failed 
and haded back the disk.  It was the physical disk that was broken and I 
couldn't get hold of a spare to fix it.  I've used windoze and linux tools 
before and I find that both seem to fulfill different requirements. 

Thanks to the guys for their suggestions - and late nights... :o) 

James Williamson 

 

James Le Cuirot writes: 

> On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:50:40 +0000 (GMT)
> Lee Hughes <toxicnaan at yahoo.co.uk> wrote: 
> 
>> what's you choice of free linux recovery tools?
> 
> I'm going to get skinned alive for saying this but... 
> 
> A few months ago, a friend of mine sent a hard drive to me in the post.
> The poor fool figured it seemed solid enough so he hardly padded it at
> all. When it came through the letter box and landed on my wooden floor
> with a loud thud, I knew this was unlikely to have a happy ending. If
> only it had been a solid state drive! 
> 
> I tried to get some life out of it in Linux but it would only get as
> far as reading the partition table. Mounting the thing just kept making
> it reset itself and it was making some horrible clicking noises. 
> 
> I wrote it off as a loss but my unwashed Windows friend offered to give
> it a try. I thought he was going to try and swap in some spare parts
> but he didn't even need to. He had little trouble reading it in
> Windows, and was even able to access the ReiserFS partition! 
> 
> I was consequently able to restore my web forum to its former glory.
> Who'd have thought it, eh? 
> 
> James 
> 
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