SV: Re: SV: Re: Need help data recovery software

[Christian]

Hi all,
Many thanks for the replies
I think that Testdisk is what I am looking for, but the question is how good is it. I have also been looking at none free alternatives such as Spinrite 6. But I think I will go with Testdisk first.

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Från: "Matt Barnes" <barnes.matt at gmail.com>
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Skickat: 10-04-09 03:26
Ämne: Re: SV: Re: Need help data recovery software

I had a data catastrophy a while back and bookmarked this on Delicious:
http://lifehacker.com/5237503/five-best-free-data-recovery-tools

Recuva worked for me. It's hit or miss, whatever you do, pull the drive,
make an image, and do your recovery on the image.


On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 9:18 PM, <trev.saunders at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> well, you have a couple options, the two I am aware of are testdisk which
> is designed for this purpose, and parted the partiitioning tool has a
> command to recreate a partition if you know roughly were it is.  Fortunitely
> I've never needed to use either and don't know how well they actually work.
>  I would suggest that you first make a copy of the disk with dd before
> making attempts to recover data that would involve writting to the disk.
>
> HTH
> Trev