Hello, Thanks for that advice. Foremost looks intesting. I've booted up using Damn small linux, plugged in a USB harddrive 160G. tried dd= if=/dev/hda7 of=/mnt/sda1/wikiimage/wikiimage.dat bs=4k Damn small linux returns "Input/Output" error if I try dd= if=/dev/hda8 of=/mnt/sda1/wikiimage/wikiimage.dat bs=4k where /dev/hda8 is a healthy partition, an image gets made on my USB hard drive. looks like I'll have to mount the failing drive in a working machine and see if Foremost can recover anything. Thanks for the help Elroy. If other people have other thoughts I'd appreciate your comments. Cheers Chris On 17/07/07, elroy <elroy(a)ihug.co.nz> wrote:
Hi Chris.
First off, I'm no guru, but here goes:
Use 'dd' or similar to create an image of the failed/failing drive.
Do a google and install/download/research the following programs:
Foremost
Scalpel
etc.
I ended up using Foremost, and recovered a lot of data - not as much as I had hoped, but better than none.
For Win32 OS - PC Inspector File Recovery - was free? last time I used it.
HTH.
Elroy.
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