Re: Disk Drive Recovery

Yes, I've used Knoppix or Kanotix CD's several times to recover files from Windows PC's that would no longer boot from disk. Just boot it up from CD and mount the hard drive, mount a USB drive (if Knoppix drives are mounted Read Only, so right click/Actions/Change Read-Write Mode). Note - you will want your USB drive formatted as FAT-32 not NTFS.

www.knoppix.net/
www.kanotix.com/changelang-eng.html

Neil Palmer, Cambridge, Ontario, Canada

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--- On Tue, 9/2/08, Chuck Lewis <chuck.lewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

From: Chuck Lewis <chuck.lewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [PCTECH] Disk Drive Recovery
To: "PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users" <pctech@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Received: Tuesday, September 2, 2008, 10:25 AM
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...

Chuck

-----Original Message-----
From: pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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On Behalf Of Tom Jedrzejewicz
Sent: Sunday, August 31, 2008 5:10 PM
To: PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users
Subject: Re: [PCTECH] Disk Drive Recovery

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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