It turns out GNU ddrescue did just the trick, and I was able to get 98% of the data off that dead hard drive. Now to set up a new Windows system for these poor bastards (why, oh why, can’t everyone run *nix?). I need a cup of coffee first.

Andrew Montalenti (aka pixelmonkey, amontalenti) is the co-founder and CTO of Parse.ly, which provides data insights to the web's best publishers. He is also the founder and principal at Aleph Point, Inc., an agile software engineering consulting firm. You can follow him on Twitter or LinkedIn. This entry was posted on Monday, August 22nd, 2005 at 2:27 pm and is filed under Microsoft, Open Source, Personal, Technology. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.