Data recovery.

Jason Clinton me at jasonclinton.com
Wed Jul 2 17:26:59 CDT 2003


jd0g wrote:

>If you are trying to recover text files you could always mount the damaged
>HD in RO and raw copy (dd) to a new place and grep through the data to
>extract what you need.  I guess it depends on how fragmented your drive is.
>
>
Correct me if I'm wrong but wouldn't that require some knowledge about
sector headers and byte-offsets? The data on disk is stored different
for every filing system. It would litterally look like a stream of ones
and zeros. It would be very hard to make heads or tails of anything.

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Just my three trits.
7A81 0A2F 1ABE DC38 DABC  7C22 B2EE 2304 4A89 46BF





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