help with the recovery of a head crash with a MS ntfs file system.

[Knapp]

On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 3:41 AM, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hello, I have a nice working Kubuntu install with lots of extra storage space.
>>> I also have my relatives laptop that has ALL their baby pictures that
>>> were never backed up!
>
>>> Their kid tossed the computer onto the floor and now the drive is dead
>>> with read errors and the MS recovery disk can't help.
>
>>> As I understand it the best think I can do is boot the computer with a
>>> live CD and copy the small HD over to my computer with the router. I
>>> have no clue about the best way to set this up on my computer. Any
>>> pointers on this basic one time use networking?
>
>>> Second question. What should I do to the laptop to get the most info
>>> off the drive? Gparted does see that the drive has ntfs and that there
>>> are errors. That is all that I can get. Should I try DDrecovery or
>>> what?
>
>>> I have never done anything like this before so don't be afraid to tell
>>> me all the stupid details and point to good links.
>
>> dd as others have suggested is good. I would also recommend:
>
>> http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk
>> http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec
>
>> And if you are technically capable, go and get a usb drive adaptor
>> something along the lines of:
>> http://www.vantecusa.com/front/product/view_detail/266
>
> I "+1" the idea of using a usb drive adaptor.
>
> If the drive is damaged, you should use ddrescue first to back up and
> preserve the data and then copy it over.

Can you get them for internal use also? IE plug a 2" into a normal
drive plug. Would that be cheaper?


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