Recovery

[Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri.]

On Wed, 31 Jan 2007, Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri. wrote:

> On Tue, 30 Jan 2007, Lokeey wrote:
> 
> > i haven't done anything to fix it yet...i'm still looking for a tool to help
> > me extract the data that's on that partition...i think what the partition is
> > missing is a kde startup file, but i'm not 100% sure...also, when i received
> > the first batch of errors, i fan fsck
> > 
> > to answer your other question, what i originally did was format the
> > partition that i thought was empty and not being used.
> 
> Ouch :)
> 
> First rule of recovery ---  use your backups -- you _do_ have backups
> right ?
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also take a look at these

http://www.simplicidade.org/notes/archives/2005/02/recover_day.html

http://www.debianadmin.com/recover-data-from-a-dead-hard-drive-using-ddrescue.html

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1927995,00.asp


http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1928163,00.asp

hth, hand,

Sharukh.
-- 
Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri.  			Homoeopath, Linuxer.
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