On Wed, 2002-04-03 at 13:16, Bob Thibodeau wrote: > This may be addressed somewhere, > but my only access right now is my > palm handheld. > > Are there any utilities in debian to > attempt data recovery on a hard > drive? > > Sometime between midnight and 10am, > while powered off, the W98 box > at work lost its primary partition. > I'm reinstalling on a spare drive right > now, and I'm not very optimistic > about finding a 'doze tool that will > help me find any data that might > still be there. > > Unless I'm wrong, the best option is > for me to take the drive home and > use some low-level access tools to > examine it. Any ideas on the best > way to go about this? I brought in > a Tom's RTBT in case it would be > usefull. > > TIA, > Bob > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > There is a tool dd_rescue that may help, I haven't used it. http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/ddrescue/ A neat rescue bootable cdrom: http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/looplinux/rip/ -- Greg C. Madden Debian GNU/Linux 3.0
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