Tool for recovering data from crashed HD
Dexter Ang
thepoch at mydestiny.net
Thu May 6 15:33:07 UTC 2004
Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> I've got a HD which seems to have problems.
> ( I can't boot from it)
>
> I would like to know what tools are available to actually
> perform some kind of data recovery or something.
>
> Currently, I'm just booting into a copy of Knoppix and then mounting
> the HD and copying (what can be copied) off the drive to another network
> location.
>
> Sometimes it works. sometimes it just hangs at scp.
>
> Pointers??
Is the HD still detected by the BIOS? If so, maybe it's just something
screwy with the partition table. I've used "gpart" before. It
automatically tries to detect the partition types on your harddrive, and
recreates the partition table. I've done it on a dying HD before (one
that kept losing knowledge of any partition). Booted up in Slackware,
ran gpart from a floppy. That restored the partition table, booted up in
Windows, backuped all files needed, then after a reboot the harddrive
died. I didn't have a spare HD so I had to burn the data using Windows.
And nope, MS's "fdisk /mbr" didn't work there.
HTH
dex
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