These messages refer to bad blocks on the HDD. Data on these blocks is gone. What I would try is to freeze the drive, mount the partition, try to quickly copy whatever data is possible (don't copy system and programs, these can be reinstalled) and then trash the drive.
If you feel adventurous, you can try using the HDD Recovery CD, which often times repair most of the bad blocks on the drive (there is something like soft-bad blocks and hard-bad blocks, read about it somewhere but never tried to understand the difference). Good luck with the recovery. On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 9:13 AM, Roger E. Rustad, Jr <roger.rus...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm helping a coworker recover some stuff of a failing drive. It's quite > important to him, as his little girl is very sick and he has some > pictures of her on it. > > I'm hoping to get a clean bit-by-bit copy of the drive while I still > have options. The hard drive is obviously failing (chunks are bad, and > parts of the hard drive just don't show up), and I want to get a big > rip/dump of everything on the drive (including deleted stuff) before the > drive is retired so that he can later pic through it and recover what > might be salvageable. > > Using System Rescue CD, I ran dcfldd on the drive and split up the > images in chunks that would read to an attached FAT32 drive. (I'm fairly > sure that the command is right). However, I'm getting the following > error (below is a pic of my monitor) > > twitpic.com/1iu9v > > The dcfldd command that I've been running has been going on for over a > week (/dev/sda is the screwed up IDE 160 GB hdd), and if that's what it > takes to get a clean dump of the raw data on the hard drive that I can > later work on, then that's cool and I'll just leave it. > > But if I should cut my losses and do something else here before the > drive fails further, please let me know so I can do so fast before the > drive takes a turn for the worse. > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > LinuxUsers@socallinux.org > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers >
