2008/12/23 Quan Sun <cfk.q...@gmail.com>: > First of all, you need to make a byte-to-byte backup of your external hard > disk. > A single 'dd' command will achieve that. > > Then, if you can remember the original partition scheme, try to manually > restore it. Hopefully most data can be found with minor inconstancies. > > BTW There was a thread on 'Recovering data from failed hard drive' around 1 > December 2008, and it may be useful to you.
Maybe it's also worth trying to find one of the alternate superblocks. If you used ext2/ext3 then a "mke2fs -n ..." will tell you where htey could have been and a "e2fsck -b ..." will use them. There could be also tools around to search for superblocks by their "magic number", I can't find one right now but maybe the afore-mentioned sysrescuecd includes such tools. I've just had a dig through the kernel sources and I didn't complete it but I think I can write you something to lookup blocks with the magic number in the right place if it comes to that. Cheers, --Amos -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
