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 X(7): A program for managing terminal windows. See also screen(1).
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