Drive recovery using Linux??

[Bart Silverstrim]

NoOp wrote:
> 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

I found it on the already-booted RIP disc (rescue is possible) at 
version 6.7, but the Ubuntu one looked to be 6.6? :-(