Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 10:48:46 +1000 From: "Andrew Johns" <A_Johns@TurnAround.com.au> To: "Nataraj Dasgupta" <xbsd@hotmail.com>, <dburr@pobox.com>, <dick@dgriffin.org> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: get data from crashed harddisk????? Message-ID: <001601bec292$4f66bf20$4001a8c0@tasajohns.turnaround.com.au> In-Reply-To: <19990630004249.7567.qmail@hotmail.com>
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This idea, on the surface, seems like an excellent idea, BUT.... [snip] > I used to run NT once upon a time, and one fine morning, it > died on me. I > had just finished this work for the IT deptt. and had not > backed it up. The > data was finally recovered, and here is how that was done. > > The hdd was taken out and I connected it to the motherboard > of a second PC > so that it would act as a secondary IDE. when the booting was > complete, I > transfered the files from my HDD onto this PC, reformatted my disk, > installed the OS and transferred them. Voila. Since you are > probably talking > about data on an unix fs, if you were to use a windoze > machine to retrieve > the data, see if you can get any Win s/w which could mount ...where are you going to get this software from? I don't believe that it exists, certainly not the public domain... > the type of fs in > consideration. Cheap and effective method. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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