Data recovery

[NoOp]

On 10/01/2007 07:24 PM, Anthony Yarusso wrote:
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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.

Unless of course he is like many whereby the live CD doesn't work, or
takes about an hour to boot... In that case I'd recommend using a
Knoppix LiveCD instead:

http://www.knoppix.org/
  http://www.knopper.net/knoppix-mirrors/index-en.html