[Wolves] Help - crashed hard disk!!! re ddrescue

[Mark Ellse]

Have rung Voda and am waiting for them to call me back. But am trying to 
play with ddrescue.

Have located it in the package manager for Ubuntu and marked it and 
gddrescue for installation. Clicked OK. It seemed to locate the packages 
and install them. (I think I know that because now in the package 
manager they are marked in such a way that I can uninstall them!)

But now I can't find them on the Ubuntu machine. Any ideas?

Mark



Dave Morley wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 12:00 +0000, Ron Wellsted wrote:
>   
>> On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 11:39:35AM +0000, Mark Ellse wrote:
>>     
>>> OS is Windows 2000. FS is NTFS. Have put computer into another machine 
>>> with Windows 2000 and it recognises that there is a disk there, but 
>>> can't access the disk.
>>>
>>>       
>> This makes it sound like either the partition table is damaged or the
>> filesystem itself is VERY badly corrupt (which implies that any data
>> recovered must be regarded as suspect).
>>
>> You could try ubuntu (reads/writes NTFS no problem), otherwise you
>> need to look at a specialist service (Vogon?).  The important thing at
>> this stage is not to make matters worse, If you have any doubts, DON'T
>> TRY IT!
>>
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> If all else fails try gnu ddrescue or try one of many tools available
> system rescue cd also the gparted live cd comes with a tool similar to
> ghost so you could make an image drop it onto a working harddrive then
> use a file extraction tool on that.
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