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Searching for files and recovering if possible
HI folks forgive me if this is a stupid question, being new to forum it'll take me a little time to find my way around. I had a catastrophic disk error and was given great help in another sub forum here. The issue I have is that it appears that my harddisk has been wiped, boot sector, partition table etc is knackered. The suggestion was to perform a sector by sector clone of the disk. I have downloaded Macruim from here and have a spare drive with sufficient capacity.
Question 1:
Would this be a disk cloning operation I am after as oppossed to a disk image operation?
When I have my sector by sector dump I want to be able to run some recovery programs against the dump to see if I can extract personal information. I realise I may not get anything but maybe I'll get something. The drive has certainly not been reformatted.
Question 2:
Can you please recommend some tools that'll be able to trawl this dump and attempt to recover lost/deleted files?
As always I'm relying on you guru's out there to hopefully guide me in the correct direction.
Thank you in advance JD