[PLUG] data recovery from broken hard disk drive
MJang
mike at mommabears.com
Wed Apr 29 19:05:14 UTC 2009
On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 11:26 -0700, Don Buchholz wrote:
> Co-worker asked if I had any recommendations for recovering files from
> a personal computer hard drive that won't spin up any longer.
FWIW, once I had a failing laptop drive - which didn't boot, and just
beeped at me. Fortunately, I was able to see the partitions (using fdisk
-l) when booting a Live CD.
I was able to use dd_rescue to recover nearly everything. It took hours.
However, if your co-worker is beyond the reading by Live CD stage,
that's another matter.
Thanks,
Mike
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