Data recovery

jbk jbk at mail2.gis.net
Wed Nov 23 22:19:08 EST 2005


James Kramer wrote:
> Would someone please suggest good data recovery software for Linux
> ext3.  My nearly new Western Digital hard drive crashed.  Fsck will
> not work.  Western Digital recovery tools will not work.  I can boot
> to another drive and access a few files in the bad drive but that is
> about it.  I am running Debian Sarge with a Western Digital IDE drive.
> Thanks and Happy Thanksgiving.
> Jay
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Find testdisk. It is supplied on some Live CD's. I have used 
it on ext3 and ntfs partitions to restore the mbr. You may 
beable to google for it. I don't remember how I found it.

till next
	Jim



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