On Monday 01 September 2008, Clayton wrote:
So... something is seriously wrong... obviously... but the question is... is there any hope? Does anyone know any method, or tools (Linux, Windows, whatever) that can be used to recover at least some of the data?
Hi Clayton, First of all, make an image of the entire drive using ddrescue or just plain old dd and work on that image. That way, you won't make any mistakes you will regret later. I have successfully used a tool called "autopsy" in the past, to recover files or even fragments of files out of a disk image. It's actually a tool for forensic analysis of drives, but it can work on damaged drives too (images thereof). I use it in combination with Sleuthkit, which provides a web interface to autopsy. Both are Linux tools, and both are in the openSUSE repos (at least for 10.3). Good luck! Joop