Re: [LAU] [ot] Data recovery

Hello, Julien. And sorry for your situation. Unfortunately, I suffered something similar with an HD some years ago and today I still have a list of files with strange names to check, sort and rename properly. But at least I recovered a lot of them (don't know if all). So I tell you that I did recover things with some non-FLOSS software somebody recommended me then, I had no time to do a proper search for FLOSS alternatives. I concur with what Robin said: don't write or mount read only. Very important. Just in case, I add to what have been said some tools you can use now that, at first, could be better for you as they can be used not so GUI-driven and are Linux based: LiveCDs: * SystemRescueCd <http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page>: live Linux rescue CD that offers numerous tools to handle numerous tasks, including partition manipulation, file recovery, hard disk testing, ftp, and disk formatting. * Knoppix <http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html> and F-Secure Rescue CD <http://www.f-secure.com/en_EMEA/security/tools/rescue-cd/>(based on Knoppix) * Parted Magic <http://distrowatch.com/partedmagic> * Ubuntu Rescue Remix <http://ubuntu-rescue-remix.org/> another live Linux CD tools I remember people recommended me mainly SystemRecueCD, F-Secure and PartedMagic Other: * Ddrescue <http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html> and Safecopy <http://safecopy.sourceforge.net/>are tools that allow tasks related to copying disks with errors and such Tons of luck, Julien. 2012/9/9 Julien Claassen &lt;julien(a)mail.upb.de&gt; -- Carlos sanchiavedraz * Musix GNU+Linux http://www.musix.es