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:



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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:


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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/[/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/[/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.