Linux based Data Recovery Tools

[Robert L Cochran]

I'm doing something like that right now using a Linux distro named 
"Recovery Is Possible Linux" or RIPLinux. In fact I was using RIP 
version 9.1 to help me rescue a system. It had a little trouble booting 
on an Hp Pavillion a6400z system, but I retried and it booted up fine 
the second try. Then I started using some of the tools:

ddrescue to duplicate the bad hard drive to a brand new hard drive

testdisk to analyze the contents of the new hard drive

I think I need to recover one bad area of 8,192 bytes from what the 
ddrescue log told me. Maybe "PhotoRec", a companion program that comes 
with testdisk, can do that for me.

I'm actually extremely surprised a Hitachi hard drive built last year 
would go bad so soon, but the system itself was in an extremely dirty 
environment and when I opened the case I found some huge "dust bunnies" 
in  there. Maybe the accumulated dust jacked up the operating 
temperature of the hard drive and that damaged it.

http://rip.7bf.de/current/

Bob




On 06/14/2009 09:28 PM, Christopher A. Williams wrote:
> I'm looking for suggestions on disk data recovery tools that can address
> files and partitions formatted NTFS and EXt2/3. Ideally, I'd like
> something that runs natively on Linux - specifically Fedora - but would
> be willing to settle if I must for something I could run from a Windows
> VM.
>
> I see lots of on-line propaganda, but would really like to not waste my
> time and money on something that I can't be confident about. Moreover, I
> would strongly prefer something licensed under the GPL.
>
> Anyone have any favorites I can consider?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Chris
>
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