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Ubuntu Live to Recover Data?

Dec 27, 2011 10:35AM PST

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Absolutely but when I do this work I first do this.
Dec 28, 2011 5:55AM PST

I clone the drive so I can work on the clone. It's like what doctors do when they learn surgery. They practice on dead things or meat then under the keen eye of experts when they operate on a live patient.

The very idea you would work on your last copy is well, a very bad idea.
Bob

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Help Me Install the Software...
Dec 28, 2011 7:54AM PST

Thanks for your time.

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Sorry no.
Dec 29, 2011 11:25AM PST

Any advice I can give would be a guess since I can't examine the drive first hand. And then you have my procedure that I follow religiously.

It's your data. I will not help anyone destroy their data. Maybe someone else will.
Bob

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It's Okay!
Dec 30, 2011 1:31PM PST

I understand your hesitation.

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Partition Wizard Linux
Jan 10, 2012 1:07PM PST

You can try "Partition Wizard" for Linux which has a Partition Recovery option.
Its "pwhe5.iso". It runs off Linux.

I have used it quite successfully.

Ramesh

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Thanks but I did this...
Jan 15, 2012 8:52AM PST

Okay so I downloaded Ubuntu rescue remix and used the instructions on their site. Worked like a charm!