Drive Recovery Software

[Daniel Brown]

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.