Hard Drive Retrieval Software (OT)

[Kendric Beachey]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net
> [mailto:owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net]On Behalf Of Jeremy Fowler
> Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 4:52 PM
> To: Kclug
> Subject: Hard Drive Retrieval Software (OT)
>
> Anyone know of any good software that can retrieve data from a failed
> drive? Preferably Open Source and can read FAT32 Partitions as well as
> ext2?

Sorry, I have no advice for things to do after the drive is toast, but as a 
preventive measure for next time, I am pretty much sold on a new fairly 
simple backup plan called Mondo:

http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo

It backs up your stuff to CDs, which are bootable so that you can recover if 
your system won't boot.  It handles ext2, reiser, vfat, etc.  Handles 
dual-boot systems well.

It also makes for an easy way to re-allocate your filesystem across a 
different set of partitions, or switch from ext2 to reiser, or add a new hard 
drive, or clone your system, or a few other things.

-- 
Kendric Beachey
ak at kc.rr.com

DVD decryption in seven lines of Perl code:
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