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Re: [SLE] Software to Extract Data from Corrupted HDD??
- From: Christopher Mahmood <ckm@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 21:22:48 -0800
- Message-id: <20011220212248.B29779@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
* JW (jw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) [011220 20:14]:
> At 07:34 PM 12/20/2001 -0800, you wrote:
> >* Robert Thyberg (thyberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) [011220 17:51]:
> >> All IBM recommends is to zero (literally) it out
> >> or get professional help. Their DOS program has a utility to reformat with
> >> zeroes!
> >>
> >> Do any of you know of a program which might crack this open??
>
> No No No!
>
> He's looking for a way to extract the damaged data, not for a way to finish it off.
He said the the IBM tech told him to run some dos tool that replaces
what's left of the filesystem with zeros; that's exactly what the dd
does...see the quote above.
--
-ckm
> At 07:34 PM 12/20/2001 -0800, you wrote:
> >* Robert Thyberg (thyberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) [011220 17:51]:
> >> All IBM recommends is to zero (literally) it out
> >> or get professional help. Their DOS program has a utility to reformat with
> >> zeroes!
> >>
> >> Do any of you know of a program which might crack this open??
>
> No No No!
>
> He's looking for a way to extract the damaged data, not for a way to finish it off.
He said the the IBM tech told him to run some dos tool that replaces
what's left of the filesystem with zeros; that's exactly what the dd
does...see the quote above.
--
-ckm
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