[BBLISA] software hard disk recovery

[Alva L. Couch]

Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
> One of my friends windows machine died today – boots up only half way 
> through the windows splash screen and freezes.  There is one file he 
> wants to recover out of it, but it seems to be suffering from hardware 
> failure because attaching the disk via USB enclosure to another computer 
> will only let him load the USB mass storage device, and won’t go any 
> further than that…

I have had extremely good luck with the commercial product
"Zero Assumption Recovery" for Windows. It allows one to
read files on a disk without mounting it. It does not
modify the disk to do this, and can even read all usable
content off a disk without fixing it.

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Dr. Alva L. Couch
Assoc. Prof. of Computer Science
Tufts University
Medford, MA 02155
http://www.cs.tufts.edu/~couch