On Fri, 23 Sep 2011, Michel Donais wrote: > To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> > From: Michel Donais <donais at telupton.com> > Subject: Re: [CentOS] data recovery > > Two weeks ago I've been in similar situation on an 80 gig sata drive. > > Found it with 8 partition; boot was there but nothing of the operating > system to load Linux 5.6 > > My recovery solution was to put the disk on a window system as a secondary > drive. Just connected to read data > For reading I found a software called ' nucleus kernel linux' from > http://www.nucleustechnologies.com/Linux-Data-Recovery-Software.html > > On partition 3 I found nearly all my data files and their directories but > were missiing /etc /bin /dev .... There's also Parted Magic on the Ultimate Boot CD which is a Live Linux recovery distribution: New features in UBCD V5.x include: * New! The Linux-based distro Parted Magic is now included with UBCD V5.0. This should be the method of choice when you need to resize/rescue partitions, access NTFS filesystems or work with USB storage devices. http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/download.html Obviously the choice is yours which one suits your needs the best. Kind Regards, Keith Roberts ----------------------------------------------------------------- Websites: http://www.karsites.net http://www.php-debuggers.net http://www.raised-from-the-dead.org.uk All email addresses are challenge-response protected with TMDA [http://tmda.net] -----------------------------------------------------------------