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  1. Re:BartsPE and Windows Server 2003 Evaluation vers by canadiangoose · · Score: 1 · on Windows XP In Your Pocket
    You use ClamAV with Captive-NTFS to clean viruses.

    You use this nifty registry editing boot disk to fix the registry

    And you use the linux NTFS tools and TestDisk to undelete/unformat/rebuild lost or damaged files and partitions. I use these all the time, they work REALLY well.

    I carry around a copy of Damn Small Linux on my USB key, customized with above tools and including an image of the registry editing floppy and endless other utilities. Not to mention, DSL Linux gives me full access to the Debian APT repository! It serves me very well, especially since it can boot entirely into RAM, so I can take my key out and boot additional system.

  2. Re:Security hole? by 1u3hr · · Score: 1 · on How To Head Off ATA HDD Password Abuse
    ah-ah--an "unconditional" format will be the long, slow kind. A quick format, if the option is available will be the fast kind. But why do either of those things when you can just write zeroes to the partition table?

    Because it's pretty easy to recreate the partition table. Eg, Testdisk saved my data after a Windows crash destroyed the parttion table.

  3. Re:Grade by danielrose · · Score: 1 · on Is The 'CSI Phenomenon' Good For Science?

    Better yet, the image had been deleted and the obtained it from "residual charge" of the flash memory.

    Something along those lines is possible (provided the photo has not been overwritten and the memory is not volatile and is reasonably unfragmented.
    PhotoRec does this, among other tools

  4. Re:be careful who you hire by 1u3hr · · Score: 2 · on Not-So-Clean Hard Drives For Sale
    (Of course re-partitioning stands a good chance of bringing everything back

    A Windows crash screwed up my partition table, eventually I found Testdisk, a marvellous free utility that analysed the disk for an hour then rewrote the tables, and brought it back to life with my data (unbacked) all there.

  5. Re:Imprecise! by Xugumad · · Score: 4, Informative · on "Witty" Worm Wrecks Computers

    Try running Testdisk: http://www.cgsecurity.org/index.html?testdisk.html

    It comes as part of Knoppix I believe, and was a great help last time someone lost their partition table. After that, just fsck as normal.

  6. Re:Some products by Dalcius · · Score: 1 · on Good, Affordable PC Diagnostic Software?

    Speaking of file recovery, I've found testdisk to be a godsend. It'll run in Linux/DOS and can locate filesystem headers on a disk. It'll even let you browse certain filesystems without mounting them.

    I've found 6+ month old partitions on my disk (complete with a few directory listings) with this thing.

    http://www.cgsecurity.org/index.html?testdisk.html

  7. Re:I have a serious question by 1u3hr · · Score: 1 · on Second Hand Hard Discs Reveal Secrets

    Try testdisk. Free. Recoverd a disk with a gig of downloads for me when Windows trashed the partition table. It takes a long time to analyse a disk, so be patient, then it presents what it thinks the partition table should be, you accept it and it writes it. Obviously, can't run this from the damaged disk itself.

  8. Re:Troll by Sobrique · · Score: 1 · on Coleman To Sell Portable Fuel Cell Generator

    Repartition or reformat?
    Have a look at Testdisk if you've reformatted, then it's too late, but this may save your prodigous MP3 collection.