Recovering data from failed Maxtor One Touch II drive

[Steve Kratz]

> I own a 100GB Maxtor USB external drive.  It has just failed, 
> only making beeping and clicking sounds when I turn it on I 
> realise that it may be a long shot, but are there any Linux 
> disk utilities that could analyse the drive to see if any of 
> the data may be recoverable?  It's ext3 formatted.


I've had really good luck with dd_rescue. As long as the drive's
spinning, it'll try to chew data off it.