[BBLISA] Data recovery help request

[Eric Dropps]

GetDataBack has proved useful time and time again for us, even when windows
won't recognize the partition.

Eric Dropps
Systems Administration Group
Harvard University FAS Computer Services
dropps at fas.harvard.edu 

-----Original Message-----
From: bblisa-bounces at bblisa.org [mailto:bblisa-bounces at bblisa.org] On Behalf
Of Scott Ehrlich
Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2007 3:16 PM
To: bblisa at bblisa.org
Subject: [BBLISA] Data recovery help request

A family member's hard drive has started to fail.   I connected it to my 
Windows box and Windows claimed it was a new drive and wanted to reformat
it. 
I said no.

I then connected to my Linux box and it saw 4 partitions - two "unknown",
one 
Novell, and one NTFS.

I used dd to try and preserve the partitions; one of the unknowns was fine,
the 
other gave me a disk i/o error immediately and stopped; the ntfs one got
much 
of the way through but also gave a disk i/o error.   I didn't bother with
the 
tiny Novell one.

With all of this, is there a better way to try and recover the data?  My
next 
step is to use strings to try and recover whatever data I can.  Is there any

tool and/or method I can use to try and preserve the existing data as though
it 
came back from a data recovery shop, without having to spend much money?
The 
drive is still pretty good, so I can always redo the data retrieval.

The goal is data retrieval with little or no cost.

I'll be happy to consider Linux, Mac, and Windows options.

Thanks.

Scott

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