I have a corrupted hard drive that is inaccessible within Windows XP. It
does show as a disk drive but Windows XP tells me its unformatted and wants
to format it. I can however, using demo versions of disk recovery tools, see
all the data on the drive. The demo versions will not allow me to recover
the data.
Is there any free disk utilities available that will allow me to recover
this data. Thanks

Zinzan wrote:
Yes -- Knoppix! If you have a seperate burner, you can burn directly from
Knoppix.


http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html

Rescue Info:
http://www.knoppix.net/docs/index.php/FaqRescue
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerwork...y/l-knopx.html

More Info:
ftp://ftp.uni-kl.de/pub/linux/knoppi...PIX-FAQ-EN.txt
http://www.knoppix.net/docs/index.php/KnoppixForNewbies
http://www.knoppix.net/forum/


There is this, also, but I've not tried it:
http://www.sysresccd.org/index.en.php


HTH

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On that special day, Zinzan, (theno8@hotmail.com) said...

Testdisk might be the thing you need

http://www.cgsecurity.org/index.html?testdisk.html

When I posted this four days ago in a German newsgroup, a poster
complained that he should have known earlier of that program, so that he
would have had less hassle, when he had to recover something with cat
and dd.


Gabriele Neukam

Gabriele.Spamfighter.Neukam@t-online.de


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Ah, Information. A good, too valuable these days, to give it away, just
so, at no cost.

Zinzan wrote:
Check out Drive Rescue
http://www.woundedmoon.org/win32/driverescue19d.html

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"Zinzan" <theno8@hotmail.com> wrote in
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If you have another hd you can install linux and recover most of your data
files, or as first reply saidd, Knoppix from a cd.

Virus program won't help?

try going to www.iolo.com and downloading system mechanic proffessional if
you can get to another computer then burn it to a CD and use the
drivescrubber utility this should ressolve it for you
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