TestDisk is a powerful free data recovery software.– will have a tool to diagnose issues and possibly even perform some automated fixes.įinally there are tools to recover partitions, MFT, rebuild boot sectors, copy back or undelete eleted files. In addition to these options often a drive manufacturer – Western Digital, Seagate, Maxtor, Hitachi, etc. Knoppix, eg see this review of recovery options with Knoppix.However it’s best if you “touch” a broken drive as little as possible to avoid damaging data further and so using a boot-from-CD (or more commonly now DVD) tool is often best. This provides a minimalist environment from which you can test a drive and run automated repairs (eg with fsck). – come with a “fix” or repair option similar to the F8 options available when booting MS Windows.
Most distros – Fedora, Mandriva, SUSE, Ubuntu, etc. Repairing a broken linux distro, filesystem, bootloader Bandel, “The ins and outs of disk maintenance-what we all should know and DO.”
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