Re: Partition Recovery From External USB Hard Drive

Worst case scenario you can always take the drive out of the external case and put it in your desktop for recovery with conventional tools. Most (all?) USB ext hdd's are conventional ide drives in an external case hooked up to a small controller board to convert from ide to USB.

Geoff

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-----Original Message-----
From: Larry Offley <lucullus@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 08 May 2007 11:14:36
To:Richard Brinson <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc:security-basics@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Partition Recovery From External USB Hard Drive

Richard Brinson wrote:
I am currently working with a customer who needs to recover data from an
external USB hard drive which has had it's only partition (NTFS) deleted.
Obviously Windows won't recognise the drive any more so I would like to know
if anyone has any neat tricks or tips to access the drive and rebuild the
partition without using commercial software, and preferrably via USB so I
don't have to rip the drive out of it's casing.

Many thanks

Richard





Under linux is a program called testdisk that will do that. I have used
it with CD based linux boot disks and rebuild disks that would cause my
windows machine to reboot when connected.

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

Larry Offley
www.offley.ca

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