What I am familiar with is a windows program - Norton Tools (or whatever it is now called).
It used to have a utility which could read damaged disks and retrieve files. There are
others although I do not know what they are.
A search on Google with 'disk recovery tools' came up with several entries. The first one
was:
http://www.ics-iq.com/products_cat_en.cfm - looks nice, but is expensive ($249 US).
Second entry in Google was:
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/recovery/!INDEX.html
These are linux based and may meet your needs, you should read the SRM entries to see
what each utility does.
Third entry in Google:
http://www.sevenlocks.com/SWDriveRecovery.htm
Appears to be several windows based programs which may meet your needs.
Hope this gives you a start. I enjoy looking into things such as this, but do not think the
list wants me to give a review of each entry from the Google search result : ).
Jim
12/30/01 09:34:15 AM, Richard Bos
The question is not related to this list, because it concerns a win98 (or NTFS) formatted HD. Never the less I post the question here as I hope to get to learn if it is possible to retrieve the "lost" data with our superb OS :))
My neighbour though to be able to quickly install MS XP next to his MS windows 98. However, the XP installation started to format his whole disk instead of a partition. After 2% in the format process he stopped the installer. I checked with "dd if=/dev/hda ..." and it looks like his data is still here. With other words the table of contents has been removed by the format tool (according Norton Utilities the disk is not formatted and contains no data ;)
Is there a some way a retrieve files from that HD? I guess one needs to know how the underlying filesystem format and then it is possible to do. Is there a tool that can do this.
Just curious if linux can rescue a MS windows HD...
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