SV: Re: Need help data recovery software

Matt Barnes barnes.matt at gmail.com
Fri Apr 9 01:26:21 UTC 2010


I had a data catastrophy a while back and bookmarked this on Delicious:
http://lifehacker.com/5237503/five-best-free-data-recovery-tools

Recuva worked for me. It's hit or miss, whatever you do, pull the drive,
make an image, and do your recovery on the image.


On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 9:18 PM, <trev.saunders at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> well, you have a couple options, the two I am aware of are testdisk which
> is designed for this purpose, and parted the partiitioning tool has a
> command to recreate a partition if you know roughly were it is.  Fortunitely
> I've never needed to use either and don't know how well they actually work.
>  I would suggest that you first make a copy of the disk with dd before
> making attempts to recover data that would involve writting to the disk.
>
> HTH
> Trev
>
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