Rescuing data
From FGARWiki
How to rescue data from a damaged harddrive
- Using the old Ubuntu C D 9.10, boot Ubuntu in live mode. Go to system administration synaptic package manager.
- Them go to settings repositories. Turn on universe.
- Open up a terminal and go ahead apt-get update.
- This downloads the current packages from the internet.
- Apt-get install gdd rescue
- This installs the program for rescuing data from the hard drive.
- fdisk -l /dev/sda (This checks to see the hard drive)(sda means scsi=small computer serial interface, d means disk, a means first one.)