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Brown Richard wrote: > Hi Guys > > I hope all is well. > > I have a friend who took their pc to a repair place. Unfortunately the > repair was botched and instead of repairing they simply formatted the > whole drive. > > I have looked on the net and have found the dd command to be my > friend. What I want to do is to recover all data from the formatted > drive, so it has been suggested I use: > dd bs=512 if=/dev/rXX# of=/some_dir/foo.dmg conv=noerror,sync > Basically I just want to check is that correct please? > Thanks for the help. > Rich > If the drive has been formatted you don't want to use anything other than a data recovery service.. If this bodge was done by a company, they should be paying for this service.. That is, after all, what PII is there to cover.. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html