Steve Lefevre <lefevre.10 at osu.edu> wrote: > I am going through a stack of hard drives trying to find some data that > I may have lost. I think I have the drive I want, and of course, the > drive isn't co-operating. > So I'm at the end of my expertise. Any thoughts? As root: dd if=/dev/hda | strings | grep whatyouarelookingfor