[OT] Hard drive recovery

[Steve Mynott]

On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 08:34:47AM +0100, Aidan Samuel typed:

> I used to use a program called "lost & found" by powerquest. It worked
> really well. But:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TestDisk

is GPLed and covers data recovery for most known filesystems.

It's on the excellent "Recovery is Possible" linux boot CD

<http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/looplinux/rip/>

This has already saved one NTFS disk for me which I thought lost
by toggling the CHKDSK.EXE flag on reboot.

--  
Steve Mynott <steve at tightrope.demon.co.uk>