Data recovery

[jbk]

jbk wrote:
> 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

Oh,
And don't use fsck. Use e2fsck for an ext3 system. Fsck is 
what comes up first when your system crashes, but say no, 
escape, reboot with rescue disk and use the afor mentioned 
e2fsck.

till next
	Jim