Check out testdisk. http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk I've used it quite a bit in the pass and it works wonders. :)
-wilson > You know how they say to unmount your usb drive before ejecting it? I > think I see why. My wife has one of those hard drives built into a > flash form factor. Its flaky USB enclosure fell apart, and during her > last use the partition table became corrupt. I imagine that the data is > still there. > > Has anyone encountered this and succeeded in recovering data? It seems > that dd is the tool for dumping the data, and that something along the > lines of dd if=/dev/sdb of=/home/scott/baddisk.img > > But I am currently fiddling with gpart: > > Description: Guess PC disk partition table, find lost partitions > Gpart is a tool which tries to guess the primary partition table of a > PC-type disk in case the primary partition table in sector 0 is > damaged, incorrect or deleted. > . > It is also good at finding and listing the types, locations, and > sizes of inadvertently-deleted partitions, both primary and logical. > It gives you the information you need to manually re-create them > (using fdisk, cfdisk, sfdisk, etc.). > . > The guessed table can also be written to a file or (if you firmly > believe the guessed table is entirely correct) directly to a disk > device. > > --scott > > > > _______________________________________________ > LUAU@lists.hosef.org mailing list > http://lists.hosef.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luau > _______________________________________________ LUAU@lists.hosef.org mailing list http://lists.hosef.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luau