Linux based Data Recovery Tools

2009-06-14 Thread Christopher A. Williams
I'm looking for suggestions on disk data recovery tools that can address files and partitions formatted NTFS and EXt2/3. Ideally, I'd like something that runs natively on Linux - specifically Fedora - but would be willing to settle if I must for something I could run from a Windows VM. I see lots

Re: Linux based Data Recovery Tools

2009-06-14 Thread Robert L Cochran
the operating temperature of the hard drive and that damaged it. http://rip.7bf.de/current/ Bob On 06/14/2009 09:28 PM, Christopher A. Williams wrote: I'm looking for suggestions on disk data recovery tools that can address files and partitions formatted NTFS and EXt2/3. Ideally, I'd like

Re: Linux based Data Recovery Tools

2009-06-14 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 19:28:04 -0600, Christopher A. Williams chriswfed...@cawllc.com wrote: I'm looking for suggestions on disk data recovery tools that can address files and partitions formatted NTFS and EXt2/3. Ideally, I'd like something that runs natively on Linux - specifically Fedora

Re: advice for data recovery

2008-11-18 Thread Robin Laing
Robin Laing wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Todd Denniston wrote: Dave Stevens wrote, On 11/10/2008 04:56 PM: Hello All, So does anyone know of a program I can use to only copy files that are not damaged? I can sort out the teenies, but don't see how to proceed after that. man

Re: advice for data recovery

2008-11-14 Thread Robin Laing
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Todd Denniston wrote: Dave Stevens wrote, On 11/10/2008 04:56 PM: Hello All, So does anyone know of a program I can use to only copy files that are not damaged? I can sort out the teenies, but don't see how to proceed after that. man ImageMagick man identify

Re: advice for data recovery

2008-11-13 Thread Robin Laing
Dave Stevens wrote: Hello All, I am trying to recover .jpgs that were on a SATA drive that was formatted by mistake. No backup of course. Foremost has done a wonderful job of recovering several tens of thousands of files. Unfortunately many of them are either irrelevant (cached web

Re: advice for data recovery

2008-11-13 Thread Todd Denniston
Dave Stevens wrote, On 11/10/2008 04:56 PM: Hello All, I am trying to recover .jpgs that were on a SATA drive that was formatted by mistake. No backup of course. Foremost has done a wonderful job of recovering several tens of thousands of files. Unfortunately many of them are either

Re: advice for data recovery

2008-11-13 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Todd Denniston wrote: Dave Stevens wrote, On 11/10/2008 04:56 PM: Hello All, I am trying to recover .jpgs that were on a SATA drive that was formatted by mistake. No backup of course. Foremost has done a wonderful job of recovering several tens of thousands of files. Unfortunately many of

Re: advice for data recovery

2008-11-10 Thread Waleed Harbi
Try Scalpel http://www.digitalforensicssolutions.com/Scalpel/ or Foremost http://foremost.sourceforge.net/ On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 12:56 AM, Dave Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello All, I am trying to recover .jpgs that were on a SATA drive that was formatted by mistake. No backup of

Re: ****Re: Data Recovery:

2008-10-27 Thread vohnmaxwell
I've upgraded/updated installed packages for Fedora 9. I've removed Xen. I am able to start either KDE or Gnome. However, individual applications are a hit-or-miss. Very much a miss with either KDE or Gnome. The application will give all indications that it is starting, either the message

Re: Data Recovery:

2008-10-26 Thread vohnmaxwell
Here a are the steps I've taken and the results.1) Installed Fedora 9 Found that Fedora 9 does not support Xen very well. When loading, it would encounter a (XEN) Xen is relinquishing VGA console message then hang up. When I would bypass XEN and attempt to use one of the listed Fedora

Re: ****Re: Data Recovery:

2008-10-26 Thread Craig White
On Sun, 2008-10-26 at 13:11 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here a are the steps I've taken and the results. 1) Installed Fedora 9 Found that Fedora 9 does not support Xen very well. When loading, it would encounter a (XEN) Xen is relinquishing VGA console message then hang up.

Re: ****Re: Data Recovery:

2008-10-26 Thread Craig White
some suggestions... - that you use keep discussions on the list and not think of me as your personal support dude. - that you suggested that you updated to Fedora 9 but that boot options are Fedora 8 and have to answer my first question about how you updated from Fedora 8 to Fedora 9 - i.e. the

Data Recovery:

2008-10-25 Thread vohnmaxwell
I had a problem with the install of Fedora 9 (Up grade from Fedora 8). I am attempting to use Fedora 9 Live to access my hard drive in order to recover any data - pictures, documents, etc.It seems that Fedora 9 Live is unable to find my hard drive. How do I get access to this data?Or, if I

Re: Data Recovery:

2008-10-25 Thread Craig White
On Sun, 2008-10-26 at 02:00 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had a problem with the install of Fedora 9 (Up grade from Fedora 8). I am attempting to use Fedora 9 Live to access my hard drive in order to recover any data - pictures, documents, etc. It seems that Fedora 9 Live is unable to

need help with data recovery

2008-06-10 Thread dave giurintano
My former computer died. I had a dual boot XP and FC4 setup. I bought a new machine vista and figured to get my /home, all I'd need to do was boot form a FC9 live CD and move it ot my external hard drive. But all I see is the /boot partition on the old linux drive. I then tried to get it from