file recovery program?

[Vivek J. Patankar]

Dave Stevens wrote:
> I've been given a Ubuntu disk that has had some files erased. Immediately after
> erasing them the drive was pulled and stored. I propose to mount it under FC6
> and try to recover files. I have the file names. Any pointers? programs? reading?

I have a good experience recovering files from an almost dead IDE disk 
using R-Tools' R-Linux data recovery tool. It is free (commercially, not 
opensource) MS Windows utility.

http://www.data-recovery-software.net/Linux_Recovery.shtml

I managed to recover almost all of the content that I wanted to restore.

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Regards
Vivek J. Patankar

Registered Linux User #374218
Fedora Core release 6 (Zod)
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