So. Long story short, I managed to break my primary windows hard drive's partition tables and render most of the data on it inaccessible. The problem is, there are some rather important documents and irreplaceable photographs on the drive that I haven't backed up yet, and I need help in recovering that data. I'm currently running Ubuntu off a spare HD so no worries about installing software and overwriting data on the original drive.
Here are my questions: (1) Are there any F/OS linux utilities that I can use to recover data off the drive? It's an ntfs-3g drive. A utility that can repair partition tables may also work, but I don't understand how partition tables work so I don't know if this is possible. (2) If nobody is aware of an open source alternative - Has anyone currently in Kirksville previously purchased commercial data recovery software that I can borrow for a weekend? It can be linux/windows. (3) In the case that the first two are not feasible, does anyone have any reccomendations for commercial data recovery software? Thanks for the help, //_ Patrick Kilgore | Truman State University | [email protected] - [email protected] | 314.803.0842
