I have used a program called Spinrite from Gibson Research for years. Depending on exactly what the fault was, it may be able to repair the problem. It can take a very long time to run on a bad drive. I believe you can still download a full copy for a limited time trial at http://www.grc.com if I remember correctly. That is also the home of ShieldsUp someone mentioned recently. Hmmm, I just went to the site and it looks like version 5 may be available for free but I did not find a trial thing for version 6. BTW, version 6 is far from new. Steve has been promising an upgrade to 6 for years but seems to have too many other projects to get it done. I suspect that is because he is old like me. :) On 11/30/06, MIchael Sammartano wrote: > > Where did you get McAfee from? The company name is Kroll OnTrack and they > are a global company that deals with DATA RECOVERY, not anti malware. Yes > it > may be expensive to purchase, but what is the information lost worth? > Welcome to the Digital Information Age. The more we store on disk, the > more > likely the odds are that we will have to pay the price to recover, as we > all > know all physical things eventually die, no matter how redundant we may > be! > > http://www.iconnetworksolutions.com > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "eculbert" > To: "Main PLUG discussion list" > Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 8:59 AM > Subject: Re: Drive Recovery Software > > > > --- MIchael Sammartano wrote: > > > >> If chkdsk /R does not work, there is a program > >> called EasyRecovery. It will > >> try to recover all of the windows based filesystems, > >> and RAW. I do not > >> remember to it was free, of if I had paid for it. > >> \\\ > > > > //////////////////// > > > > Its from McAfee, so you know, bend over! > > > > http://buyonline.ontrack.com/ecom/catalog.asp?cookie%5Ftest=1 > > > > > >> Mike > >> > >> http://www.iconnetworksolutions.com > >> ----- Original Message ----- > >> From: "Daniel Brown" > >> To: "Main PLUG discussion list" > >> > >> Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 12:09 AM > >> Subject: Re: Drive Recovery Software > >> > >> > >> > George Toft wrote: > >> >> May be OT :) > >> >> > >> >> A friend handed me a Windows drive with a book in > >> progress and tons of > >> >> family pics. You know the drill - it died. > >> >> > >> >> When I boot with Knoppix, the partition table is > >> readable (fdisk -l) and > >> >> I can mount the partition (/dev/sda2), but I > >> cannot list the contents of > >> >> the file system. > >> >> > >> >> I am in the process of using dd with the noerror > >> option to try to copy > >> >> all the intact data off the disk. Not sure this > >> will get me anywhere. > >> >> > >> >> What data recovery tools are available? > >> Linux-based preferred, but will > >> >> do Windows. > >> >> > >> >> > >> > I would give chkdsk /r a shot with Win XP. It > >> might fix your file system > >> > problem. > >> > > >> --------------------------------------------------- > >> > PLUG-discuss mailing list - > >> PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > >> > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail > >> settings: > >> > > >> > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > >> > > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------- > >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - > >> PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail > >> settings: > >> > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > >> > > > > *****/////*****/////***** > > > > Ed Culbertson/ke7feg > > Remember Katrina? > > For several days, only hams could get out, > > and talk to others dependably. > > > > No Morse Code required for Technician class licensee's. Interested? > > http://www.arrl.org/ > > > > Long live Knoppix, and Puppy Live Linux cd's. > > > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > > Do you Yahoo!? > > Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. > > http://new.mail.yahoo.com > > --------------------------------------------------- > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. - Dr. Seuss