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Get another harddrive and do a full install of the same version you had. Do this install with the dead drive NOT connected. Once the new system is up and running, shutdown and connect the drive as a slave or on the second IDE ribbon. Reboot and create a mount point for the drive then mount the drive in read only mode. See if you can copy some files off of it.
After you have tried to get all the files you need you may want to use a low level hardware diagnostic utility on the drive to see if it was a hardware failure. On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 08:59, Johnny Stork wrote: It looks like I have done some serious damage to a 50gb partition on a new 60gb IDE drive. Around a week ago I noticed some errors showing up on the console. Basically that hdb "lost interupt" or something simliar (didnt get logged to /var/log/messages). There were also some messages from the drive about seek_error etc and then "resetting" and then all would be ok. I was so busy it took me a day or so before I had the chance to look at it, but by then that drive seemed to lock up. Since it was a new drive I figured it was a loose/bad cable or power connector (seen simliar behavior from such a cause) and so shut down the machine and re-connected/checked all cables. One was pulled out a little.
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