System Recovery

Page last modified 14:12, 13 Dec 2011 by goeko

This page as info about using Linux to help recover your system.

This is an article that talk about different Linux live distributions you can use to help recover a system.

If you are running Ubuntu system you can use the Testdisk "Suite"

sudo apt-get install testdisk

Testdisk is a tool to Scan and repair disk partitions.

You would be best advised to copy the damaged disk to a file, and then you can use testdisk to inspect and recover it.

When you install testdisk you will also get the photorec tool to recover files from the disk/disk image.

Here is a link to some Live Recovery Disks (for both Linux and Windows)

Reciently I had to recover files off a sd card of mine ( I had deleted them... arg.).

First I made a copy of the whole SD card

dd if=/dev/sdd of=4GB_SD_Card.img

Then I ran the testdisk recovery tool

sudo testdisk 4gb_SD_Card.img

Here is a link to the tutorial I follow.

Attach file

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