Re: Disk rescue tools?
On Thu, 2002-04-04 at 08:53, Greg C. Madden wrote:
> 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
> >
> >
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> 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/
I have used rip before, and it is really excellent. I always have a copy
on CD for when things turn bad.
Crispin Wellington
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