Best way to retrieve data

baldurpet · 12-23-2008, 08:44 PM

What is the best way to retrieve data from the most popular Linux/Mac operating systems, and from the most popular file systems? (when I say 'popular' I mean the ones which regular people use like NTFS, FAT, EXT..)

Would you use a LiveCD? What liveCD would you use for PPC?

I'm not necessarily talking about a computer that has corrupt data, but also computers which you can't log in on- no, I just want to learn everything there is to know about data recovery

r1d3r · 12-23-2008, 09:08 PM

To "retrieve" data from popular filesystems all you need is any live cd with root user,
For data recovery, use System Rescue CD.

baldurpet · 12-24-2008, 05:17 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by r1d3r

To "retrieve" data from popular filesystems all you need is any live cd with root user,
For data recovery, use System Rescue CD.

Does that work on a PowerPC? I'd heard that Knoppix was one of the best liveCD to recover data, but then when I tried it on my girlfriend's Mac it didn't work because of the PPC architecture. Which architectures are the most used? And what liveCD is the best for each one?

r1d3r · 12-25-2008, 12:48 AM

Yes it works on ppc, the final stable version for ppc is 0.2.

Download for ppc

This link shows some distros for ppc :

Code:

http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=ppc