Do you have your data on an alternate partition? If only your root partition is bad (or over bad sectors) you'll probably be able to mount the other partitions to get the data without trying something like ddrescue.
On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 10:18:18PM -0800, Rob Hudson wrote: > Mr O, > > I think you'll be able to help me as to where to go next... > > The drive serial number is: IC35L040AVER07-0, which happens to be one of > those 40 GB IBM 60 GXP drives that everyone eventually has the very same > problems with... eventual bad sectors and lost data. > > I purchased the drive 10-Dec-2001, so over 2 years ago. I'm hoping it's > one of those still under 3 year warranty. I got it from buy.com. By > searching for that serial number, I found that others have been able to > send their drive back and get another (different) one. That overcomes > my problem of a bunk drive. > > Now for the problem of somehow getting as much of my data off of there > as possible. Anyone played with dd_rescue? > http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/ddrescue/ > > -Rob > > > On 20030111.1714, Mr O said ... > > > > fsck may not return what you really want to know. Best advice is > > to go to the manufacturers website and download their disk > > utility. With that you can do a full scan on the disk and find > > out what bad sectors there are and/or if the drive is worth > > saving by doing a low format. > _______________________________________________ > Eug-LUG mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug _______________________________________________ Eug-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
