old computer data recovery

Today I used DSL to pull off some old .doc files from an ancient hard-drive which was mountable, but didn't seem to be bootable anymore. I must say that Damn Small seemed very handy for data recovery on this old computer because it didn't suck up all the ram. It makes me wonder what the professional computer data recovery specialists are using? Maybe they keep dsl in their back pocket? It is very cool to use Linux to recover a Windows drive.

By cfdisk99 at 2005-01-26 22:41 | cfdisk99's blog | login or register to post comments

another success

I had the exact same experience. I think once you have dsl this problem becomes far less painful than it would have been otherwise.

By clacker at Wed, 2005-01-26 23:23 | login or register to post comments

data recovery distros

"It makes me wonder what the professional computer data recovery specialists are using?"

LNX-BBC and RIP are two. DSL is friendlier and probably all you need in most cases. LNX-BBC handles more formats though. For example, if you need to read data off an OS/2 HPFS partition, you need LNX-BBC.

DSL if by far the easiest to use. Since big (around 180 GB) USB hard drives are getting so cheap these days, we can use the nice mount.app and emelFM to move big blocks of data without ever even looking at a command line. Just a couple clicks and the data flies!

By BillH at Fri, 2005-01-28 11:41 | login or register to post comments

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