On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 09:58:20PM -0500, John Meier wrote: > any recommendations on software/hardware to extract data from a drive that > is working but may have some fed up partition table present? > > Something that will work with all OSes (mac, window and linux)? The first recommendation is to get a bigger drive and stick it into the same machine, then boot from a USB disk running Linux and make a copy of the "bad" disk onto the larger disk, then run whatever tools on the copy. Here is a Linux that specializes in recovery tools and can be run from USB drive: http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/looplinux/rip/ Cheers, florin -- Bruce Schneier expects the Spanish Inquisition. http://geekz.co.uk/schneierfacts/fact/163 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20080926/db2d17ae/attachment.pgp