Data recovery

[James Takac]

On Tuesday 02 October 2007 12:54:31 NoOp wrote:
> On 10/01/2007 07:24 PM, Anthony Yarusso wrote:
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> > James Takac wrote:
> >> Hi Guys
> >>
> >> Have a friend who had his windows hard drive trashed, well, at least the
> >> bootable partition. Aparently his system froze so he powered it down.
> >
> > When he
> >
> >> next powered it up it appears the bootable partion got wiped. What I'm
> >> wondering is, are there any packages out the for Ubuntu that might help
> >> recover the partion. Or maybe I need a stand alone tool/cd of sorts?
> >>
> >> James
> >
> > Not sure about actually recovering Windows stuff, but chances are it's
> > only operating system files that are trashed, not the rest, so you can
> > still use a Live CD to recover all of the data you want and move it to
> > an external drive or burn to CD, then re-install Windows (or skip it
> > and go all Ubuntu...).  I've done this successfully a number of times,
> > and it's pretty straightforward once you have the drive mounted.
>
> Unless of course he is like many whereby the live CD doesn't work, or
> takes about an hour to boot... In that case I'd recommend using a
> Knoppix LiveCD instead:
>
> http://www.knoppix.org/
>   http://www.knopper.net/knoppix-mirrors/index-en.html

Thx NoOp

Have that distro around as well. Will likely take the case of cd distros and 
tools with me LOL

James