Re: Tools to retrieve images from dead hard drive and/or deleted partitions
On Fri, 2012-12-28 at 13:19 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-12-28 at 12:50 +0100, berenger.morel@neutralite.org wrote:
> > > I have heard good things of PhotoRec:
> > >
> > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhotoRec
> > > http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec
> > >
> > > But I have no personal experience of it. The advice is always to
> > > copy the
> > > drive that needs rescuing to another drive, and work on the copy, not
> > > the
> > > orginal. Again, I have not tried it.
> > >
> > > Lisi
> >
> > Thanks for the hint, I'll try it this afternoon on (2)
>
> Mount the drive read only, than there is no need to backup. There are
> all kinds of commands to recover data, usually they don't recover the
> data on the corrupted drive, but save the files to another place, so
> it's no problem to mount a drive read only.
>
> Regards,
> Ralf
PS: Even if you make a backup first, by all means mount the drive or
partition read only, before you access it.
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