[plug] OT: HD Data recovery

[David Griffiths]

>Howdy,
>
>Sorry for being off topic. I was wondering if anyone knows of a company in
>Perth that recovers data from hard drives, or has a solution to my problem.
>
>I put my drive from my Win95 box at home into my NT 4 box at work, and
>foolishly run disk administrator and said yes when it asked to add a disk
>signature. Now I cannot read anything from any OS (Linux, Win95, NT, W2K),
>as the partition table seems to have been blown away by NT. :(
>
>Any ideas? (I am in the doghouse in a big way with the better half!...lost
>all of her data)
>
>Ta,
>Greg Raftery

A painful way to go if you're _really_ desperate and need access to some
_ascii_ data quickly (and have a spare system with linux on it) is to mount
the disk as a slave and do a cat (as root) on the raw device (eg /dev/hdb).

Can then filter it with strings, grep  etc. Works best if the drive is not
badly fragmented naturally.

Commiserations and good luck,

Dave.



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