On 8/30/06, neidorff <neidorff@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi folks, My wife's hard disk stopped booting, and her backup is corrupt. (of course) I took the disk and put it as a slave (/dev/hdb) in a linux machine. Booted up. fdisk reported that it is "unable to open" the drive. Now this is weird. The bios reports that the drive is there when I power on. This is a different error than a missing disk, that error is "unable to read". Anyone have any idea what type of failure I have on the disk and how to read it to recover data? Many, many thanks, Mark -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
What is the output of dmesg for hdb? That should give you a good idea. You could run foremost (Linux free file carver available from sourceforge.net) on the physical device (assuming Linux can at least see the physical device - you can test this with something as simple as strings /dev/hdb | head). That would allow you to carve out certain file types to another drive before re-formatting it. Jacques B.
