recover coaster

tucolino · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 12 Jun 2003 Posts: 90

a friend brought me a notebook with a dead hard drive. it was making noise and would die frequently. luckyly (well... sort of) i was able to get it running once again. while i was burning the data on to a cd to back it up, it died on me. it makes loads of noise and bios won't even recognize it anymore.

the cd i was burning did not manage to finish writing. it was not fixated or anything. by looking at it, it seems like it got most of the cd written. however, i cannot mount it. i was wondering if there was a way i could mount it, or take the raw data from it. this seems like the only information which would be recoverable. the hard drive is unrecognizable.

i did try to dump the cd all using dd, but it doesn't read much. anyway, may i be able to get to the data on the coaster? any mount parameters,offset, etc which i could play aorund with to get to thhis data?

thanks.

tuco
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NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sat Dec 11, 2004 8:22 pm Post subject:

tucolino,

Try isobuster. its a Windows program but may work under WINE.
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tucolino · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 12 Jun 2003 Posts: 90

thanks for your reply. this is how i finally got it: