[Liverpool] Data Recovery

[Jason Jorgenson]

Unfortunately, I lost an entire year's worth of digital photographs
and videos due to a bug in Kubuntu's HDD install software, but I was
able to get a lot of it back.  I have been looking for the CD I used,
but have not yet been able to locate it.  I am sure I will be able to
locate it before the meeting, which I am almost certainly going to be
attending.  I will bring it along.  It only recovers data files, but
is very very good, and easy to use.  Especially with partitions.  Let
me tell you the (embarrassing) story.

I decided to increase the size of my linux partition, and decrease
Windows one day.  Using the GParted live cd i redid them, no problems.
 All of my photos etc were on their own partition, which was not being
touched, and everything was fine.  The Kubuntu installer, however,
deleted the partition!  I was horrified, but this software recovered
it perfectly.  Nothing was lost.  I was at this point though, not
aware of what had caused it to happen, so I carried on with the
installation.

The second time around, it actually changed the file systema dn
formatted the partition.  So this time, it really was bad.  *sigh*
Anyway, by booting from an external with this cd I cant remember the
name of (but will find) I was able to recover a *lot* of the stuff.
any file that was fragmented was basically no good, but there wasnt a
lot of fragmentation anyway, so I would say I recovered a good 80-85%.
 Best of luck to you.  whatever you do, don't do any writes to the
drive until you get this software....

Jason Jorgenson (aka Arkygeek)