Grant, Read/write failures are a bad sign. You have some degree of hardware failure on your hands. If the heads can't read what's stored on the platters you'll be SOL... unless the person your restoring for has a fat wallet.
There are some data forensics toolkits, but if the hardware is borked they aren't going to help you. I'd suggest a new drive, and a backup scheme. - Sebastian On Sat, 12 Nov 2005, Grant Kelly wrote: > My friend brought over a crashed windows box and wants me to see if i > can recover any files from the hard drives. I got them mounted in > knoppix and was able to copy some files to a network share, but after > a while, there are a lot of read/write errors and cp fails. > > Does anyone know a better way to recover files off of a failing hard > drive in knoppix (or any other live CD)? > > Thanks, > Grant > > _______________________________________________ > RLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug > _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
