Direct access to unmounted disks

[Ernesto Reyes]

On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 5:06 PM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> On 11/03/2010 12:22 AM, Mark wrote:
> > Are there any good utilities for doing i/o directly to disks that are not
> > mounted, possibly not properly formatted?
> >
> > I recently had a friend's computer die and when I initially tried to
> access
> > the files on the primary hared drive, it reported back as not being
> > formatted (which I knew was not the case).  In another setting I was able
> to
> > mount and read the disk, but I was wondering what we do when that can't
> be
> > done - what utility/ies do we use to recover disks that won't mount?
> >
> > By "good utilities" I mean those that are relatively easy to use in order
> to
> > read and possibly write a raw disk sector.  dd doesn't really qualify as
> > "easy to use" but it would suffice in a pinch.
>
> Test Disk:
> http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk
>  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TestDisk
> it's also in the repositories. I also recommend:
> http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/
>
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I've downloaded and installed the Test Disk application and it does not see
my drive.
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