From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 29 17:51:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from WEBBSD1.turnaround.com.au (webbsd1.turnaround.com.au [203.39.138.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05261151C9 for ; Tue, 29 Jun 1999 17:51:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from A_Johns@TurnAround.com.au) Received: from tasajohns (dhcp64.turnaround.com.au [192.168.1.64]) by WEBBSD1.turnaround.com.au (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id LAA12413; Wed, 30 Jun 1999 11:07:06 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from A_Johns@TurnAround.com.au) From: "Andrew Johns" To: "Nataraj Dasgupta" , , Cc: Subject: RE: get data from crashed harddisk????? Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 10:48:46 +1000 Message-ID: <001601bec292$4f66bf20$4001a8c0@tasajohns.turnaround.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 In-Reply-To: <19990630004249.7567.qmail@hotmail.com> Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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