<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#0b5394">Mike, </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#0b5394">
<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#0b5394">Some questions:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#0b5394">
Have you used SMART on your PC as a first diagnostic tool? </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#0b5394">Is the disk an add on to the PC?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#0b5394">
How new is the drive? </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#0b5394">What brand? </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#0b5394">
Was it or did it come pre-partitioned, and if yes was the partition used as is or re-partitioned?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#0b5394">Is the partitioning scheme MBR or GPT?</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#0b5394">Are you planning on continuing to use the HDD in the M$ PC.?<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#0b5394">
<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#0b5394">I have had success with many of the latest Linux live CD's reading HDD's that were questionable or unreadable to M$ systems. You could download Ubuntu's latest Live CD or create a bootable USB of the image plug it into the M$ PC boot Linux. Most newest Linux distro's Live CD's will attempt to automount all discovered HDD's and read their partitions. </div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#0b5394"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#0b5394">Or pull the drive and plug it into one of the Linux Boxes. If the Linux OS is new enough and has a full Desktop Environment/GUI like Gnome, or KDE etc. Most likely the disk management system will try to automount the drive and read any existing partitions. If it comes up immediately copy off / backup any files on the disk to the other native disks on the Linux box.</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#0b5394"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#0b5394">Good Luck.</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#0b5394"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#0b5394">James</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#0b5394"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 6:15 PM, Stephen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cryptworks@gmail.com" target="_blank">cryptworks@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p dir="ltr">This has been quite successful for me in the past. </p><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">
<div class="gmail_quote">On Oct 10, 2013 5:46 PM, "mike Enriquez" <<a href="mailto:mylinux@cox.net" target="_blank">mylinux@cox.net</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>I have a raw hard drive. It is a
windows machine but I also have some Linux Computers. It appears
that if you pull the electrical plug from your computer, it could
cause your hard drive to lose hard drive partition information.<br>
I am not sure if the same can happen to a Linux computer, so I
want to find what is available just in case my files disappear on
my Linux machines. <br>
My research has found that some software claims to be able to
solve lost file problems on both windows and Linux computers. <br>
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I have no idea how good these application are?<br>
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Recovering deleted files is also of interest to me.<br>
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Thanks <br>
Mike Enriquez<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Mike, we need some information to understand the
question. Is this a totally wiped drive, one with some
problems, or just deleted files that you are asking about. Tell
us you motivation so people can give valid and appropriate
answers (other than restore from your backups).<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 3:35 PM, mike
Enriquez <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mylinux@cox.net" target="_blank">mylinux@cox.net</a>></span>
wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Does
anyone know of software used to recover files in Linux and
Winlow systems.<br>
I am looking for software that will work on both operating
systems.<br>
Thanks for any help.<span><font color="#888888"><br>
Mike Enriquez<br>
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