Data recovery from a SeaGate ST34572WD using HPUX 10.20

[Greg Armstrong]

While attempting to recover data from a hard drive, brought in for eval, a
co-worker inadvertenly configured it as a new file system via SAM.

No further damage has been done (if that was not enough).

Is there anyone out there who may know how to extract common ASCII files that
(I hope) are still on the drive?

When I try to do an IMPORT on the drive, it shows as unrecognized.

If it comes to it, is there a tool out there that will allow me to 'scan' for
ASCII text and such as that.

Any help you may provide would be greatly appreciated
Thanks in advance.

[Mark Jones_23]

You could try using the following:

dd if=/dev/dsk/cxtydz |strings|more

or some variation on the above. The dd command should access the device
directly and not go anywhere near the filesystem.

It may take you a while to find what you are looking for, but once 'dd' is
reading from the device, you can pipe it into just about anything.