Re: Partition Recovery From External USB Hard Drive

[Larry Offley <lucullus () shaw ca>]

Richard Brinson wrote:
> I am currently working with a customer who needs to recover data from an
> external USB hard drive which has had it's only partition (NTFS) deleted.
> Obviously Windows won't recognise the drive any more so I would like to know
> if anyone has any neat tricks or tips to access the drive and rebuild the
> partition without using commercial software, and preferrably via USB so I
> don't have to rip the drive out of it's casing.
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> Many thanks
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> Richard
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Under linux is a program called testdisk that will do that. I have used 
it with CD based linux boot disks and rebuild  disks that would cause my 
windows machine to reboot when connected.

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

Larry Offley
www.offley.ca