Data recovery

[Karl Goetz]

On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 11:34 +1000, James Takac wrote:
> Hi Guys
> 
> Have a friend who had his windows hard drive trashed, well, at least the 
> bootable partition. Aparently his system froze so he powered it down. When he 
> next powered it up it appears the bootable partion got wiped. What I'm 
> wondering is, are there any packages out the for Ubuntu that might help 
> recover the partion. Or maybe I need a stand alone tool/cd of sorts?

ubuntu cd should be fine. especialy to find out if its  abooting problem
(simple mbr fix) or corrupt partition (not so simple) or drive died
(less simple) or... etc.
kk

> 
> James
>