[dundee] Hard Drive recovery

[gordon dunlop]

2009/3/26 Lee Hughes <toxicnaan at yahoo.co.uk>

> 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.
>
> If my calculations are correct  I'll get a gigabyte every 17mins.
>
> thus, to get 200g , It's going to take 57 hours..
>
>
I use Knoppix 5.3.1 DVD that has tools for data rescue and repair, It can
read and write to NTFS systems so Windows data can easily be saved.

 http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=04817

For low-level diagnostics UBCD is good for testing and analysing:

http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/

I also have a technicians low-level recovery disk that is good at rescuing
data (better start looking for it now, I wonder where I put it).


Gordon





> Ouch!
>
> Cheers,
> Lee
>
>
>
> --- On *Thu, 26/3/09, j.williamson at connectfree.co.uk <
> j.williamson at connectfree.co.uk>* wrote:
>
> From: j.williamson at connectfree.co.uk <j.williamson at connectfree.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: [dundee] Hard Drive recovery
> To: "Tayside Linux User Group" <dundee at lists.lug.org.uk>
> Date: Thursday, 26 March, 2009, 5:03 PM
>
>
> 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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