William Case wrote:
Hi;
I have a hard disk that seems broken but I am trying to save -- or at
least save the data on it.
The broken hard disk is a dual boot SCSI disk that worked.
* BIOS says that the disk is present and accounted for i.e. right
name and size even after swapping in and out other harddisks.
Means the electrical and electronic bits appear to work. I don't know
that the motor has to spin up for this to pass.
* Using Fedora rescue disk, parted /dev/sda says can't read sda.
* Using Fedora rescue disk, fdisk /dev/sda says can't read sda.
* Using Fedora rescue disk, chroot /mnt/sysimage can't mount
sysimage.
That's one test three times. No surprise that, when the first fails the
others do too. It's likely to be a catastrophic such as motor speed not
up to par, rw head don't move (I'm only speculating, I presume these
things can happen).
* fdisk /mbr says can't fix mbr. ( I am not sure whether this
message means that nothing is wrong with the mbr or that it is
beyond repair )
I didn't think fdisk on Fedora supported such a thing.
I would like to do any of the following:
* get the hard disk working again, or,
* view the data on the disk, and/or,
* rescue the data on the disk.
What should I try next?
1. Try knoppix. I am not optimistic though.
2. Engage expensive data recovery experts.
I think the disk is bin-fodder.
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Cheers
John
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