First thing I would do is throw a live cd in that thing and hook up a large USB drive. Then I would install testdisk and run photorec (part of teskdisk) on the hard drive to see what files can be recovered. Its gonna take a long time. You'll need a large drive (ie. a large USB) to save the data too.
Next I would use testdisk to see if the partition table could be recovered. If dban ran for just a few seconds, it might just be that the partition table was deleted, but the data was not overwritten. There are windows tools that can do this (ie. Partition Table Doctor 3.5). You should get some files from photorec. If they are not all there, you might want to try ddrescue(dd_rescue) or gddrescue. Again, this will take a while. Chris... On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Brian Friday <[email protected]>wrote: > If I was dban the first thing I would do to make sure recovery is > impossible/hard would be to destroy the mbr and then happily chew > through the data areas of the hard drive itself... > > Either way you now have definite call to wack with the clue stick... > > Though it does make you wonder, how funny was the pron on the second > hard drive that he was willing to take this chance even though you did > warn him. > > - Brian > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > [email protected] > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > -- "As we open our newspapers or watch our television screens, we seem to be continually assaulted by the fruits of Mankind's stupidity." -Roger Penrose
