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Shawn at 20:05, 19 October 2011

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	==Tools==		===Backups===
			The first line of defense in any situation is to back up drives. dd is a unix tool for when you want to make an exact copy of any drive. See the great primer at: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/learn-the-dd-command-362506/

			dd can also be used to improve the longevity of a drive, by reading the data from it and copying it back, thus preventing the magnetic information from fading away by rewriting it to original strength, bit by bit. You must start the computer from some drive besides the one you want to refresh, with a *nix system like Mac OS X or linux, then in a shell enter:
			dd if=/dev/your-drive-name of=/dev/your-drive-name
			Beware, DD is a very powerful command, and can destroy the data any drive without asking, if you give it the wrong parameters.

			===Tools===
	;Foremost:http://foremost.sourceforge.net/		;Foremost:http://foremost.sourceforge.net/
	:Foremost retrieves files from a disk or image based on header and footer data, so it can retrieve deleted files, as long as there wasn't a new file written over the same place on the disk. Follow the instructions, except use "sudo make install" instead of just "make install" if making it on mac. Use it on an image of the bad disk, not the bad disk itself, and certainly don't ever try writing the rescued files onto the disk/image you're rescuing, since that might overwrite the files you're trying to rescue.		:Foremost retrieves files from a disk or image based on header and footer data, so it can retrieve deleted files, as long as there wasn't a new file written over the same place on the disk. Follow the instructions, except use "sudo make install" instead of just "make install" if making it on mac. Use it on an image of the bad disk, not the bad disk itself, and certainly don't ever try writing the rescued files onto the disk/image you're rescuing, since that might overwrite the files you're trying to rescue.

Shawn at 14:49, 20 August 2010

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			===See also===
			;[[Fixing iPods]]

	==Tools==		==Tools==
	;Foremost:http://foremost.sourceforge.net/		;Foremost:http://foremost.sourceforge.net/

Shawn at 21:37, 19 August 2010

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	;GNU ddrescue		;GNU ddrescue

			;Photorec:http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec
			:Finds files from raw disk data. Can find all sorts of media files.



	[[Category:Computers]]		[[Category:Computers]]

Shawn at 21:27, 19 August 2010

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 :Foremost retrieves files from a disk or image based on header and footer data, so it can retrieve deleted files, as long as there wasn't a new file written over the same place on the disk. Follow the instructions, except use "sudo make install" instead of just "make install" if making it on mac. Use it on an image of the bad disk, not the bad disk itself, and certainly don't ever try writing the rescued files onto the disk/image you're rescuing, since that might overwrite the files you're trying to rescue.
 [[Category:Computers]]

Shawn at 04:32, 26 January 2010

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	;Foremost:http://foremost.sourceforge.net/		;Foremost:http://foremost.sourceforge.net/
	:Foremost retrieves files from a disk or image based on header and footer data, so it can retrieve deleted files, as long as there wasn't a new file written over the same place on the disk. Follow the instructions, except use "sudo make install" instead of just "make install" if making it on mac. Use it on an image of the bad disk, not the bad disk itself, and certainly don't ever try writing the rescued files onto the disk/image you're rescuing, since that might overwrite the files you're trying to rescue.		:Foremost retrieves files from a disk or image based on header and footer data, so it can retrieve deleted files, as long as there wasn't a new file written over the same place on the disk. Follow the instructions, except use "sudo make install" instead of just "make install" if making it on mac. Use it on an image of the bad disk, not the bad disk itself, and certainly don't ever try writing the rescued files onto the disk/image you're rescuing, since that might overwrite the files you're trying to rescue.
			[[Category:Computers]]

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==Tools==
;Foremost:http://foremost.sourceforge.net/
:Foremost retrieves files from a disk or image based on header and footer data, so it can retrieve deleted files, as long as there wasn't a new file written over the same place on the disk. Follow the instructions, except use "sudo make install" instead of just "make install" if making it on mac. Use it on an image of the bad disk, not the bad disk itself, and certainly don't ever try writing the rescued files onto the disk/image you're rescuing, since that might overwrite the files you're trying to rescue.