Data recovery

[Anthony Yarusso]

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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?
>
> James
>
Not sure about actually recovering Windows stuff, but chances are it's
only operating system files that are trashed, not the rest, so you can
still use a Live CD to recover all of the data you want and move it to
an external drive or burn to CD, then re-install Windows (or skip it
and go all Ubuntu...).  I've done this successfully a number of times,
and it's pretty straightforward once you have the drive mounted.
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