Re: [PLUG] dying hd?

[linc <linc@lincgeek.org>]

jeff wrote:
> Gordon Dexter wrote:
>   > If you have the dd image foremost will carve out the important files.
>> It just goes through the whole disk looking for magic numbers that 
>> indicate the start of files, and for most filetypes it works great.  If 
>> you're looking for unusual kinds of files you may need to configure it 
>> to recognize them.  I've used it for forensics and for data recovery before.
> 
> That's cool.
> Unfortunately, making the dd image crashed twice at the same spot.
> It gets interestinger and interestinger.
> 
> I have hope, as Testdisk sees the files - it just won't let me select them.
> 
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There is dd_recover and dderecover as well (yes they are different).

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