On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 9:49 AM, Ryan Coleman <ryanjcole at me.com> wrote: > I have a drive given to me by a family member who needs data recovered. It > was running Windows XP Professional and was his work hard drive before > retirement. <snip> > I was given leads to using ddrescue and dd but frankly that is outside of my > realm of knowledge and 9 of the 10 NTFS partitions that refused to mount in > Windows have mounted so far in FreeBSD (I'm running 8.0). > The drive is presently connected via USB on a SATA sled. > I know that there's something to be had on there somewhere: I would strongly advise to first make an image (dd or ddrescue), and work on the image, that way you are protected if some tool you try to use overwrites important data, and make things worse. -- Svetoslav Milenov (Sunny) Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.