Wed 9 Aug 2006
People ask me all the time about using linux to recover lost files on a crashed machine. My usual response is to tell them to learn linux now so that when your machine crashes you will no what to do. For some of the less disasterous crashes lifehacker.com has an article about recovering lost files using knoppix. It's a pretty decent article with lots of screen shots.
The other important thing is that the latest version of Knoppix V 5.0 is out as of June 2 2006.
Not only is Knoppix the best bootable CD/DVD version of linux it is also great for running under vmware and qemu.
September 29th, 2009 at 9:40 am
Knoppix is a very very useful tool for data recovery. I use Knoppix when Windows fails to detect or access the hard drive.
The latest version of Knoppix makes data recovery even easier because it enables writing to an external USB flash drive or hard drive automatically.
Simply plug the USB flash memory and drag your files to it.
I just finished a new step-by-step data recovery tutorial. Check it out here:
How to recover files from laptop with crashed Windows
New Knoppix rocks!
Good luck!