Topic: Hard disk recovery tool?

[vanark]

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.

[Fatah Ruark (aka MIKE B)]

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/

[vanark]

This system actually has Win2K Pro on it and I don't have the installation disks available until Monday.

[flipp]

maybe something in this MS Support article will help

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/229716/

[Gordon]

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

[mmedley.]

My favorite tool...


getdataback


http://www.runtime.org/data-recovery-software.htm