[RLUG] data recovery

[Jeff Shippen]

Sounds like the hard drive failure is the probable crash of windows. 
As for recovering, I would say grab what you can, there is little
hope for those with read/write errors, as they are most likely
corrupted...

Advice: be carefull when plugging things into his system, my friend
had a pc whose power supply worked, but not completely, every hard
drive he plugged into it was killed.

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Grant Kelly wrote:
My friend brought over a crashed windows box and wants me to see if i
can recover any files from the hard drives. I got them mounted in
knoppix and was able to copy some files to a network share, but after
a while, there are a lot of read/write errors and cp fails.

Does anyone know a better way to recover files off of a failing hard
drive in knoppix (or any other live CD)?

Thanks,
Grant