Recover a Failing Disk Using a Linux Live CD

Dec 04, 2008, 23:33 (0 Talkback[s])

[ Thanks to Kevin DeKorte for this link. ]

"First the situation, a Windows XP machine that was having trouble booting. I eventually got it to boot but shortly after that the disk in the machine started giving random read/write errors. So here is how I tried to recover it.

"Tools:
"Fedora Live CD (I used Fedora 8 cause that is what I had) A Fedora Linux based file server with lots of diskspace or another hard drive."

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