data recovery in linux
 

hi geeks...

please tell me the best data recovery tools in linux.
is it possible?

rgds....lakshminarayanan

well, there are several ways to go about it and it depends on what happened and what you want to recover. you may just need a bootable OS, without knowing the details of what happened I can't recommend a Best solution. it my be as simple as putting the drive in a nother system/ booting to a bootable os ( http://s-t-d.org/ )
mount the drive, a USB drive, and copy the files to a USB flash drive and you have your data or For a police investigation it my require a bit for bit copy of the hard drive.

thank you...
 

hi lineman.....
thnx for yr valuable infmn.actually i lost my entire data in the HDD including partitions.so what to do.....
please help me....
thanks in advance.....

Ouch, well i did a quick google search and found this http://www.extremetech.com/article2/...1928207,00.asp
but, i have not tried it. if you lose JUST the partition table then the data is still there the hard drive/computer just dose not know where and what format it is. let me know if this helps