Data recovery

[James Takac]

On Tuesday 02 October 2007 12:24:51 Anthony Yarusso wrote:
> 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.

Hi Anthony

That's my first thought as well. He says he use EDO Commander disk (could be 
EDR) and his first partition is not seen at all whilst the second is. I've 
since found testdisk in the repos which the docs show might be promising and 
have also had supergrub pointed out to me. I suspect the tool he chose is 
likely out of date and so not up to the task

James