OT Rescue CDs/DVDs

[Russell Reiter]

I just had a look at Slax I like the posix overlay that allows for
ntfs mounts as a loop device for purposes of simple data recovery. Of
course it all depends on what manner of failure is happpening on the
drive.

On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 11:47 AM, William Muriithi
<william.muriithi-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Ivan,
>
> On 4 June 2011 10:31, Russell Reiter <rreiter91-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> All of them, man mount
>>
>> mount -t ntfs /dev/sda2 /home/me/directory
>>
>> will mount the ntfs filesystem located on the third partition of the
>> disk in the users dirctory, which they have created for that purpose.
> Will work if the hard disk is not too badly damaged.  If lot of
> sectors are bad, it will take forever to ever backup
>>
>> On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 10:24 AM, Ivan Avery Frey
>> <ivan.avery.frey-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>>> What would be a good linux rescue CD/DVD for getting data off a Vista
>>> (it's not my machine) partition off a failing hard drive.
> If its not usable easily in mounted state, you may try this.  It also
> help by minimizing the damage of the failing disk buy avoiding reading
> from failed sectors.
>
> dd if=/dev/sda2 of=/dev/sdb2 conv=sync,noerror
>
> Investigate if you need to create similar size partition on the backup
> drive as I have not done it yet, but that would be my preferred
> approach if I was in your shoes.  Someone here may even enlighten us
> on that and save you experimenting on a weak drive
>>>
>  Ivan.
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