Drive recovery using Linux??

NoOp glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Wed Mar 5 18:19:36 UTC 2008


On 03/05/2008 09:58 AM, Andrew Zajac wrote:

> 
> Testdisk or parted can detect and add partitions found on the disk
> that are not part of the partition table.  You can try that.
> 
> If you are unable to detect or guess what partition goes where, you
> can always try to data-carve the files from the raw image or device.
> Photorec and foremost are very good at doing that.   You can data
> carve a lot of the data on a disk even after it has been formatted.
> 

I didn't realize this before as I'd always obtained testdisk etc from
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Download or SystemRescue etc.,
but testdisk is in the Universe repo:

http://packages.ubuntu.com/gutsy/testdisk





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