[plug] Urgent Help Required - Payment Expected

[Sacha Schlegel]

Hi Stephen Morgan

You might also search under:

"Forensic Linux ext3" and similar with emphasis on Forensic.

There are commercial products which might handle ext3 and which provide
a demo version. One I found:

http://www.accessdata.com/Product04_Overview.htm?ProductNum=04

Good luck

Sacha

On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 12:30, Stephen Morgan wrote:
> 
> Hi, I was recommended to PLUG by LinuxIT who suggested one of your
> members may be able to help with data recovery of accidentally deleted
> files on a linux workstation.
> 
> The workstation is running Redhat 9 with a Gnome desktop. The filesystem
> was EXT3 on a standard IDE drive. I was using X when a message appeared
> saying it was deleting files. Before even reading the requestor
> completely it disappeared and all of /home was gone. I shut the machine
> down and took it to friend who started it in single user mode and
> removed hda5 (/home) from fstab and used some utilities that verified
> that the files were still there. As the files are very important
> (business & related files as well as all the documents relating to my
> legal battle to get my children back through the family court) it is
> vital that I recover them. I had a relatively recent backup but when
> checked it turned out to have been overwritten (CD/RW). Additionally my
> friend did a dd of the unmounted partition to a new drive, so I also
> have a copy of the 13MB partition as a file. I have done extensive
> research on the net for solutions, but lack the technical skills and
> knowledge to fix this myself.
> 
> I am prepared to pay to have help to recover this data.
> 
> I am resident in Margaret River and am prepared to travel to Perth on
> short notice to get help. I will bring the machine & monitors / keyboard
> & mouse and the new drive with the image on it.
> 
> Could you please forward this to anyone who may be able to help (and
> reply so I know someones out there ).
> 
> Yours Sincerely
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Stephen Morgan
> stephenm at prophesy.com.au
> 9758 7530 v
> 9758 8071 f
> 0438 50 8072 m
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