Data recovery

[Karl Auer]

On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 11:34 +1000, James Takac wrote:
> 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?

Step One: Touch nothing.

Step Two: Obtain Helix: http://www.e-fense.com/helix/

Step Three: Read the docs, boot the Helix disk.

Regards, K.

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