Re: Disk Drive Recovery -- PCTECH

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Chuck Lewis wrote:

Also take a look at Knoppix. It's a bootable Linux deal and I've managed
to read damaged "Windows" drives fine with it. Makes me think that
Windows "damages" a drive that "Windows" repair utilities (even those
that boot themselves) can't read. I know this sounds crazy but I've
personally seen this behavior more then once...

I have a drive under W2K right now that blows the W2K boot sequence. I'm using Knoppix to recover files from it (though I'm taking time to learn some Linux disk basics in order to do it.)

The drive problem for me seems only to affect some stuff involved with booting up Windows, so access to the "drive" and files on that drive is workable.

Knoppix can be handy in such cases. The boot is from the Knoppix CD.

Tom Liotta

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Try SpinRite first ... $90 software ... http://www.grc.com/intro.htm.

It sounds weird, software fixing hardware, but from what I understand it
can
fix a good percentage of problems. You have nothing to lose.

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