Thanks it does but I don't have an extra 20 gig laying around. Although
all I really need as about 13 gigs to recover the important stuff
Hoyt wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Robert L Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Sunday, April 23, 2000 5:49 PM
> Subject: Re: [Cooker] Just wiped out hard drive.
>
> ?emove the drive from the computer and install it in a working Linux computer. Let's
> assume that hda is the regular, working drive and you have the bad drive at hdc and
> hdd is a spare drive large enough to hold all of hdc.
>
> Use fdisk to create a partition on hdd.
>
> Used dd to copy the broken partition to the good one, telling it to skip any errors.
>
> dd conv=noerror if=/dev/hdc1 of=/dev/hdd1
>
> Now run e2fsck on the recovered drive.
>
> e2fsck -y /dev/hdd1
>
> Now mount the recovered hdd1 partition and pray that your precious files are there.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Hoyt
>
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