On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 8:41 AM, Girish Venkatachalam
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 10:03 PM, Shrinivasan T <[email protected]> wrote:

>> When booted with that harddisk with a ubuntu live cd,
>> sudo fdisk -l
>>
>> is showing nothing.
>>
>> The disk is not recognized by ubuntu.
>> It is not showing any disk or partitions.
>>
>> But still, can hear the sound "tak tak tak" sound from the hard disk.
>>
>> Is it any possibilities to get data from that hard disk?
>>


> Few folks came to us with a very similar case.

Disk making 'tak tak tak' noise?

> But we are OpenBSD guys. ;)

IMO, the OP's problem is hardware related.   Can OpenBSD resurrect
dead hard disks?

>
> And our filesystem is so superior. And we don't have crap like GRUB. Still...

Please start a different thread if you want to discuss merits/demerits
of FS and boot loaders.

IMO, OP's problem is not a file system issue and knowing him
personally I am confident he would have sorted out the problem on his
own.

> Anyway finally we heard that the data was recovered using a cracked.
> Chinese Windows GUI Tool.

Please, either name the tool or avoid such statements.  Unauthorized
use of a nameless tool IMO  does not solve OP's problem.

> We would like to specialize in this data recovery business but we are lost 
> how to begin.

Who is "we" ?  Also, please put add [commercial] tag.

-- Arun Khan
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