On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 11:33:07PM +0800, Dexter Ang wrote: > Ow Mun Heng wrote: > >I've got a HD which seems to have problems. > >( I can't boot from it) > > > >I would like to know what tools are available to actually > >perform some kind of data recovery or something. > > > >Currently, I'm just booting into a copy of Knoppix and then mounting > >the HD and copying (what can be copied) off the drive to another network > >location. > > > >Sometimes it works. sometimes it just hangs at scp. > > > >Pointers?? > > Is the HD still detected by the BIOS? If so, maybe it's just something > screwy with the partition table. I've used "gpart" before. It > automatically tries to detect the partition types on your harddrive, and > recreates the partition table. I've done it on a dying HD before (one > that kept losing knowledge of any partition). Booted up in Slackware, > ran gpart from a floppy. That restored the partition table, booted up in > Windows, backuped all files needed, then after a reboot the harddrive > died. I didn't have a spare HD so I had to burn the data using Windows. > And nope, MS's "fdisk /mbr" didn't work there. > > HTH > > dex I can't find gpart in fedora. Where is it or how does one get it. -- ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University One Trinity Place. San Antonio, TX 78212-7200 telephone: (210)-999-7484 email:akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx
