[ale] hard drive recovery tools?

Jonathan Glass jonathan.glass at ibb.gatech.edu
Wed Oct 8 16:06:23 EDT 2003


On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 15:31, Geoffrey wrote:
> Anyone know of any hard drive recovery tools that run under linux, but 
> work on fat partitions (or what, at one time was a fat partition)?

Are you having any luck with fdisk, dd, or fsck?

I've recovered many a "bad" disk, where Windows marks it as bad and
won't use it, or says it has too many bad blocks to use it, using the
standard linux tools.
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Jonathan Glass
Systems Support Specialist II
Institute for Bioengineering & Bioscience
Georgia Institute of Technology
Email: jonathan.glass at ibb.gatech.edu
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