How to recover data from harddrive

How do I recover data from a hard drive that has been install with fedora 10, should I slave it on another fedora pc. I failed to rescue it with Fedora DVD but there is information I need to retrieve from this harddrive. What are the procedures steps to take

 

You can do this with a Live-CD, e.g. Knoppix.

 

Yes, try with a live-cd and you'll be able to recover your data

 

I have running knoppix version 5.3.1 but cannot find any pf my folders. There are 3 harddrive two with 500G and the with 160Gig. I can see sda1, sdd, sdc and sdd which is my external drive and on this I can browser and see my test folder.

How do I use this knoppix i tried to used find then specify my files and folders

 

When you click on these partitions, do they get mounted?

 

Yes, the one with the information I want is mounted. Only the /boot folder is the one that I can see on the desktop icon (/boot) whether with the knoppix or with it as a slaved on the other computer

the results of the vgscan
root@programming ]# vgscan
Reading all physical volumes. this may take a while...
Found a duplicate PV q3w4dbmVkgn85qqC2Scqk9b5kqboVMGJ using /dev/sdc2 not dev/sdb1

Found volume group "VolGroup" using metadata type lvm2
Found volume group "VolGroup" using metadata type lvm2

my data may be wrapped in the logical volumes of which cannot retrieve

 

Now am able to go to the command prompt, if i use code locate (folder name) i can see the folder path. How do I copy these folder to external harddrive, the external harddrive is /dev/sdd1 and the data i want to retrieve is on disk /dev/sda. When i used cp /dev/sda1/home/Administrator/User Data/Info /dev/sdd1/New Folder.
I am getting this error message cp:target '/dev/sdd1/New folder' is not a directory.

How do I copy the home directory files to the usb external drive

 

You must mount the source and target hard drives first with the mount command, e.g. as follows:

Code:

mkdir /mnt/sda1
mkdir /mnt/sdd1
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1
mount /dev/sdd1 /mnt/sdd1

Afterwards you can copy files from /mnt/sda1 to /mnt/sdd1.

 

when i entered the above codes had this error messages:
root@servergra]# mkdir /mnts/sda1
mkdir:cannot create directory '/mnt/sda1': Read-only file system
root@servergra]# mkdir /mnts/usb
mkdir:cannot create directory '/mnt/usb': Read-only file system
root@servergra]# mkdir /dev/sdd1
mkdir:cannot create directory '/dev/sdd1': Read-only file system

then the mount code return that the mount /mnt/sda1 does not exist.
What should I do to have the /dev/sdd1 and sda1 the write access or to get rid of this "Read-only file system" so that I can create a directory

 

Try to mount it in another directory, e.g.

Code:

mkdir /home/sda1
mount /dev/sda1 /home/sda1

 

still Read-only file system

even i use the system rescueCD

 

I managed to copy data to the external harddrive after I entered the this code mkfs -t ext3 /dev/sdd1, I boot using System rescueCD. I used the photorec tool to recover data. On the data i had recovered files with extension .txt, .max and doc are not openning. Infact all my word documents are not openning, is there an tool to recover text documents, on the system resueCD. All pictures, jpg,bmp have been recovered without problems.

What should I use to recover text documents and saved email, my System rescueCD version is 1.2.0