> -----Original Message----- > From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Jay Daniels > Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2004 10:08 PM > To: For users of Fedora Core releases > Subject: Re: Tool for recovering data from crashed HD > > > On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 06:19:42PM +0800, 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?? > > I think you can create an iso or hard drive image to save the data if > you can read the hd then mount the iso. > > dd if=/dev/hd3 of=hd.iso #if hd3 is the hd drive > mkdir /mnt/iso > mount -o loop -t iso9660 hd.iso /mnt/iso > cd /mnt/iso && ls -la I'm actually afraid to stress the drive. It's already started to make really loud noises.. (imagine 10 forks scratching on 1 ceramic plate) I only managed to save like ~100MB of the files. The one main file which needed to be copied was a 1.5G outlook pst file. So.. that one's really gone. Boss already sent it back to Compaq for warranty. FYI - it's a Toshiba 80GB Drive for a Compaq nx1000 or nx7010 (I forget) that's just boought a little over 2 months ago. > Of course that doesn't answer why you can't boot, but if the hd is > failing, you may be able to save the data. Did you mean you can't > boot from it or you can't mount or access it? What boot errors do you > get? I think it really is failing. Each time it reads a bad/?? sector, kernel message will spill out and telling, hda sect/bad or something. U know by reading the message that it's really going down.
