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Software => Computer software => Topic started by: delibrete on December 26, 2010, 03:37:15 PM
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Worth a read: Don't Panic! How to Recover Data From a Dead Hard Drive
Recently I was recovering data from my friends laptop when I decided to see some different ways of recovering or backing up a hard drive.
Through Google I came across this article:
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/how-to/tips/4294038[/size]
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It tells you about hard drive recovery and how you can go about doing it. It then also tells you what the chances are for recovering from a drive that has gone through a mechanical failure (Gone through a natural disaster or dipped in oil).
Upon reading this I decided to find software that can recover data in situations that the hard drive is a logical failure.
Here I found:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/clonezilla (http://sourceforge.net/projects/clonezilla/)/[/size][/font]
Clonezilla comes in a live CD that you can load into a computer and creates a partition or disk clone from your hard drive.
[http://sourceforge.net/projects/bacula/ (http://sourceforge.net/projects/bacula/)[/size][/font]
Bacula comes with a set of programs that can manage backup, recovery and even support doing so over a large network with different OS's.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/redobackup/ (http://sourceforge.net/projects/redobackup/)[/size][/font]
Redo Backup and Recovery can just about do that lot, recover, backup, partition editing, partcloning etc. and it comes in a live cd so you can boot it straight from the system.
These are only a few free programs that I found from browsing SourceForge (best place for a community of people working on free projects) and it would be great if other people could suggest stories or software for data recovery, backup etc.