Re: Drive Recovery Software

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Author: Daniel Brown
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To: Main PLUG discussion list
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.
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