I just had an 80GB SATA drive go toast on me. It spins up fine and I can see it when plugged in as a USB, so I suspect the FAT or MBR is toasted and am hoping I can save some of the files using a linux tool. Anyone know of a good, and preferably free, tool for this? Nothing especially vital on the disk, but I would like to have the most recent settings of my mail server and mailboxes if I could. Backups from a few weeks ago are running on another box so I can survive until I replace the drive and load an OS.
What OS are you running? I'm guessing some sort of Windows based system.
Repair MBR.
For XP:
http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/483/xp_repair_fix_master_boot_record_recovery_console/
This system actually has Win2K Pro on it and I don't have the installation disks available until Monday.
maybe something in this MS Support article will help
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/229716/
Quote from: vanark on July 24, 2010, 07:56:52 AM
This system actually has Win2K Pro on it and I don't have the installation disks available until Monday.
free bootdisk for all old windows versions
http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm
My favorite tool...
getdataback
http://www.runtime.org/data-recovery-software.htm