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Mount broken partitions or drives via the command line
Authored by: themexican on Oct 15, '03 02:42:53AM

Norton and Disk Warrior are virtually useless against many types of partition damage and force-mounting a damaged partition in the terminal is often an exercise in frustration.

I recently had a disk with damaged partitions that I thought was beyond repair (or beyond expensive data recovery service repair)... After a quote for $700 + a new drive from drive savers I was about to give up... but then someone recommend Data Rescue. This little genius program saved most of the data on the drive and managed to save all of the data on a firewire drive I had given up for dead over a year ago. I have since rescued several friends drives. If you deal with lots of drives or are an admin, this program (which I had never heard of) should be an essential part of your toolkit.

http://www.prosoftengineering.com/products/data_rescue.php

Note: this program does not repair your partitions, it just extracts data, but it is very good at doing this. If your drive is sound you can simply reformat and move on, if not, well then at least you have your data.



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