Re: Linux Problems

[Kyle Schneider <kwschnei@xxxxxxx>]

I've always found that putting the drive in the freezer always bought me some time while extracting data.  The last time I did this, I just dropped the drive in an external enclosure into a chest freezer and snaked a FireWire cable out.  The drive held up long enough to pull 95% of the data that was on it.

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On Jun 8, 2010, at 10:43 PM, Jon DeVree <nuxi@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 08, 2010 at 15:31:47 -0400, Kevin Wright wrote:
>> It's actually more hard disk related.  It's detecting bad sectors and
>> it won't mount my filesystem.
> 
> Then you're probably screwed already...
> 
>> I'm hoping to be able to still recover a couple things that I have on
>> there before having to either reformat or buy a new hard drive.  
>> Any help you can direct me towards would be greatly appreciated.
>> 
> 
> ... but if you're feeling adventurous!
> 
> There is a chance the bad sectors only impact the first superblock of
> the filesystem. Try booting a live CD and running
> mkdir /foo
> mount -t ext2 -o sb=8193 /dev/sdNN /foo
> 
> Where sdNN is the partition that is affected, probably sda1. The 8193
> is probably the right location for the backup superblock, but I could be
> wrong. I usually don't bother trying to recover dying drives.
> 
> You'll want to *IMMEDIATELY* back up as much data as possible. Then you
> can download something like SeaTools (it works for all hard drives, not
> just seagate drives) and test the drive.
> http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/support/downloads/seatools
> 
> Go for the "SeaTools for DOS" version, its the bootable CD-ROM.
> 
> -- 
> Jon
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