I would also try doing fsck on the drive to attempt to repair the filesystem. You can do this from knoppix, or from rescue mode off the red hat install cd 1. That would be a first step. If you are pretty sure the disk is hosed I would try putting it into another box and getting the data off that way, or using knoppix to access it (if possible) and dump it to a CD or another drive if you have another drive. Sometimes these methods work...
On 7/17/05, Carl Crider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > a quick suggestion would be to boot to knoppix, and see if you can get > to your data > that way. > > what distribution do you have installed? > > On 7/17/05, B C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hey guys, > > > > I recently booted up my computer and got the message "Buffer I/O error > > on device hda, logical block #" (#=0 to 7) > > > > It seems to me that my hd failed? Any thoughts? Is there any way to > > recover the hard drive and save my data? TIA > > > > --bc > > -- > > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > > TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc > > > > > -- > Carl Crider > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc > -- Sam Folk-Williams RHCT, Linux+ http://predisposition.com/stuff -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
