On Last weeks episode I spoke about an easy way to get a little better data piece of mind. This of course was after a horrible, data laziness accident.
My accident wasn’t catastrophic, it was some pictures of the my dog. But they were the only pictures, and of course I wanted salvage them. I tried hooking the hard drive up to an external enclosure and connecting via windows. Boy did that give all sorts of pain to Windows. It saw the drive, and either just said ‘Do you want to format’ NO!!!!! or it just locked up file explorer.
So, the easy way was out. I needed to come up with a better plan. I decided to download DSL Linux. DSL linux is a small linux distribution that can be booted off a CD/USB Stick. Once you boot into it, it has a bunch of tools and utilities for file system exploring, as well as Wifi Sniffers and other utilities that you may want to tinker with, but dont want to set-up configure a whole Linux roll-out.
After some experimentation with copying the files to a good drive, removing that drive, and checking to see that I didn’t copy a corrupted file, I came up with a very smooth and easy method.
