[Techtalk] Disk recovery?

[Robert Wichert]

I suggest R-Tools.  http://www.r-tt.com Cheaper than most.  Worked for
me!


Robert




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"Rudy L. Zijlstra" wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I've a 60G disk from a friend that he could'nt read anymore. Linux
> basically tells me that lba sectors 0 up to and including 6 are
> unreadable. In other words, the most important sectors have gone to
> bitheaven.
> 
> Considering that he had (has?) at least half a year of intensive work on
> that disk, I have 2 questions:
> 
> (1) Any suggestions on how to get data from that disk with the following
> provisos:
>       - its circuitry is at least partially to HW heaven as well, i can
> only get it working as slave, not as master (not recognised on the bus
> with no other device present)
>       - So it may well be that the platter is OK, but the circuitry is
> not, resulting in the found problems
>       - I have no clue as to what the partition layout was (only that is
> was all M$ FAT32, and several paritions).
>       - (because of different projects) i happen to have several disks
> lying around that are big enough for a dd copy.
> 
> (2) Any suggestions for a european data recovery center / company?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Rudy
> 
> P.S. owner is not on the copy list, and has been told loudly and clearly
> that he's a fool for not making backups
> 
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