[Discuss] data recovery using Linux

[pw]

R. Langkamer wrote:
> On 8/31/07 1:45 PM, pw wrote:
> 
>> Is it a drive image?
>> If so, just 'dd' the image to a new drive.
>> 'dd' doesn't care if it's NTFS.
> 
> 
>     As far as I can tell, the recovery tool made simply a data dump (as 
> if dd had been run).
>     I could possibly do that, but I'm not sure how that will help 
> recover the missing data. Though the data is not really missing, just 
> that it got jumbled around is out of place. Are you thinking that once 
> it is back on a good drive that a disk repair utility might re-order the 
> data?
> 

That was the thought.
Probably not just that simple though.


Peter