Re: Any programs to read a sector on a hard drive?

scott wrote:
Is there any program available to read a hard drives sectors under
Linux? Seems one of my drives has some screwed up tables and want to
recover or at least look at the data on the hard drive. Seems one of my
machines had suffered a power burp and corrupted the table(s). The drive
is formatted in a reiser format.

A good worst case scenario recovery tool.. dd_rescue
.

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