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Neil Stone wrote: > 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.. > > There is software available for the home user to do this, but in this case I'd be inclined to agree with Neil. What they screwed up they have a legal duty to fix. In the meantime I strongly suggest the drive be left alone with no further write operations done to it until all data recovery attempts have been completed. Any further writes reduce the chances of a full recovery. Kind regards, Julian -- 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