From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 29 17:57:49 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (law-f274.hotmail.com [209.185.130.191]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 346E314E09 for ; Tue, 29 Jun 1999 17:57:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from xbsd@hotmail.com) Received: (qmail 36821 invoked by uid 0); 30 Jun 1999 00:57:46 -0000 Message-ID: <19990630005746.36820.qmail@hotmail.com> Received: from 209.156.58.59 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP; Tue, 29 Jun 1999 17:57:45 PDT X-Originating-IP: [209.156.58.59] From: Nataraj Dasgupta To: A_Johns@TurnAround.com.au, xbsd@hotmail.com, dburr@pobox.com, dick@dgriffin.org Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: get data from crashed harddisk????? Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 20:57:45 EDT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Look, it did work for me effectively. If getting the s/w for Windows proves to be a problem, perhaps (yes, PERHAPS) , you could make the hdd a secondary ide on an unix box itself. Indeed, it will involve some tinkering with the config files, but if you could just get it to mount, you would be able to retrieve the data. >From: "Andrew Johns" >To: "Nataraj Dasgupta" , >, >CC: >Subject: RE: get data from crashed harddisk????? >Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 10:48:46 +1000 > >This idea, on the surface, seems like an excellent idea, BUT.... > >[snip] > > > I used to run NT once upon a time, and one fine morning, it > > died on me. I > > had just finished this work for the IT deptt. and had not > > backed it up. The > > data was finally recovered, and here is how that was done. > > > > The hdd was taken out and I connected it to the motherboard > > of a second PC > > so that it would act as a secondary IDE. when the booting was > > complete, I > > transfered the files from my HDD onto this PC, reformatted my disk, > > installed the OS and transferred them. Voila. Since you are > > probably talking > > about data on an unix fs, if you were to use a windoze > > machine to retrieve > > the data, see if you can get any Win s/w which could mount > >....where are you going to get this software from? I don't believe that >it exists, certainly not the public domain... > > > the type of fs in > > consideration. Cheap and effective method. > > > > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message Nataraj Dasgupta Philip Morris Incorporated, Network Operations Monitor/Analyst, World intranet HQ, Rye Brook, NY. Email : ndasgupt@bridgeport.edu _______________________________________________________________ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message