Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2000 10:09:26 +0000 (GMT) From: Rick Hamell <hamellr@heorot.1nova.com> To: James Wilde <james.wilde@glocalnet.com> Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Disk recovery software Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011251007260.4072-100000@heorot.1nova.com> In-Reply-To: <88B628A69858D211B5F200A0C9DB2876D7B103@jupiter>
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Norton Disk Doctor Version 2 (or maybe 8) use to be fairly good at getting stuff back. I've never found anything since that did what it could. There is some high level Government stuff that I once played with though that could do that, though you had to pay about $10k for the licence, plus be involved with law enforcement somehow... :) Rick ******************************************************************* Rick's FreeBSD Web page http://heorot.1nova.com/freebsd Ace Logan's Hardware Guide http://www.shatteredcrystal.net/hardware ***FreeBSD - The Power to Serve! http://www.freebsd.org On Sun, 26 Nov 2000, James Wilde wrote: > A few years ago we needed to recover some data from a disk which had been > reformated. This cost us about $500 to fix since we sent the disk away to > one of those labs which can read the last n layers of magnetism on the disk > or something along those lines, and recover data. > > Now something similar has happened at home. The old computer I used as a > server for our little network (an NT job) finally packed up. The old > machine had no tape drive so - naturally - no tape backups. This I have > remedied in the new machine. Now I have tried to load the SCSI disk in > another old computer also running NT, which suggested, when it came in > contact with the old disk that there was something corrupt about it, and it > created a new root directory structure based on what it thought it had > found. I would really like to get back as much as possible of my old disk > which now sits in a FreeBSD (4.1) machine but I don't have $500 to spend on > it. FreeBSD sees the new root directory structure. > > I am wondering whether there is any software in the public domain - or > relatively cheap shareware - which I can use for the purpose of trying to > recover the information on this disk. I don't believe the guys who did the > recovery job at work opened the disk itself, so this had to be a software > solution. > > mvh/regards > > James > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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