Recovering data from a crashed hard drive
A guy I work with had his hard drive crash on his laptop. He had some valuable files on there. First we used a linux livecd of knoppix to recover some of the files. This was done by mounting it read only in linux and copying the data to the network. Some of the files were corrupt though. The next step taken was to purchase SpinRite 6.0 from grc at http://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm and was able to recover even more files. This product is truely amazing. Try it out if you have files you can’t get off a bad hard drive. Its only $89 for 1 license. Please comment if you have any success stories with it or other recommendations.