Re: HD Data Recovery

[Eero Volotinen <eero.volotinen@iki.fi>]

2011/10/3 Robert Blair Mason Jr. <rbmj@verizon.net>
>
> Hey list,
>
> A few days ago one of my parents' computers stopped booting, and they
> don't have any external backups, so I have to try and backup the data.
> BIOS POST revealed that the cause was a hard disk error. I swapped the
> drive in as a slave on another comp of mine and attempted to see if I
> could salvage any data. However, the kernel doesn't recognize the
> partitions and create /dev entries for them.  Gparted wouldn't even
> recognize the disk.  At this point, I assumed it was a partition table
> problem, as dmesg revealed that the kernel does see the disk:

This trick might work (no warranties and take your own risk for total
data loss):

put hard disk on freezer for little amount time and then try to read
data from it using another machine or usb adapter. (using dd_rescue or
similar tools)

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Eero