DSL Ideas and Suggestions :: Possible hard drive recovery tool?

A friend's hard drive crashed and I was curious if anyone has ever tried to use DSL
to recover information off of the disk.. i don't even know if it would be possible, but if you have any ideas for me to try, i can definately attempt anyting you throw at me.

Basically he has pictures of his kids and whatnot on there that he needs off of it.. so anything would be appreciated..

Thanks for any replies i get..

Side note: My official work computer that was completely toast, is now using DSL

and works better than ever!!!

500mhz pentium 3, 128 mb memory, HD install now

Yes..if the harddrive will physically spin up (crash was due to M$ and its buggy software) but the data is still intact then absolutely yes

1. Download samba.dsl
2. Get winiso (shareware but works on images below 100megs)
3. Add the samba.dsl to the main dir of the cd and save image
4. Burn
5. Boot machine with DSL, see samba.dsl load at boot
6. Mount the bad hd, and then upload all the info to a M$ network share (that is running an updated antivirus) and store the data
7. Wipe old drive with dban (quick method "all 0's") and reinstall M$ windows
8. Pull only the data, not the OS back to clean drive

If the harddrive itself died (as in the hardware wont work) then nothing will recover it besides rebuilding the drive...

Brian
AwPhuch

Or the other way, physically take the hard drive out and put it in you machine, boot DSL, mount the both the new harddrive and your harddrive, and copy data from his to yours.

Or try booting his machine with DSL, mount the HD, and attempt to burn CDs or DVDs of the data. Haven't really tried the built-in burn stuff in DSL, there are also more "userfriendly" burn softwares in the mydsl repository (eg K3B). Probably the easiest option, depending on how much data you have to copy.

If the data is somehow scrambled, then I don't know.

Or, if you have an USB memory stick, boot with dsl and copy the files to the stick.

Quote (RoGuE_StreaK @ Nov. 29 2005,23:48)

Or the other way, physically take the hard drive out and put it in you machine, boot DSL, mount the both the new harddrive and your harddrive, and copy data from his to yours.

Or try booting his machine with DSL, mount the HD, and attempt to burn CDs or DVDs of the data. Haven't really tried the built-in burn stuff in DSL, there are also more "userfriendly" burn softwares in the mydsl repository (eg K3B). Probably the easiest option, depending on how much data you have to copy.

If the data is somehow scrambled, then I don't know.

You cant if the HD is all NTFS, this is why I choose the Network Share backup method...even though it takes for freeking ever if you have gigs upon gigs of stuff

Brian
AwPhuch

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