Take a look at e2salvage <http://e2salvage.sourceforge.net/>. It worked well for me in similar situations.
John On Friday 08 October 2004 03:04 pm, tripolar wrote: > It appears my 120G harddrive is near-death. Being unable to boot I used a > knoppix cd to run smartd and /sbin/badblocks. > my hard drive 3 partitions I wish to make backups of. After googling I have > found several options- one being > dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb conv=noerror,sync > I have a new 160G hard drive. > Here is my plan > install new hard drive ( I already have partioned with fdisk & used > mkfs.reiserfs ), put near-dead hd into machine then boot into knoppix live > cd. Use dd if=/dev/hda .... etc > I have no clue how much life is left in the old one and I dont want to make > it work any harder than just getting files copied to new disk. > Are there any arguements to boot knoppix with to prevent old disk from > spinning up until need be? > dd_rescue is also on this knoppix cd. Is that a better option than dd > if=.....etc? > Before I pulled the old hd out I was unable to mount 2 partitions > Input/output errors. > Anyway to force a ro mount on a corrupted filesystem? > Do I need to mount those partitions to do a dd if= .... ? > The reason I ask here is because I feel it may already be too late for much > of the data and that I have very limited time to save the data. > Hoping I can get the most efficient & best options from this group. > Any tips would be appreciated. > thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]