Are there any utilities that I can use to salvage data from a drive that the BIOS reports as dead?
This morning I woke up to a ticking sound from my hard drive. It is a 5.7GB Seagate drive I upgraded to about 6 weeks ago. I had an xconsole up and messages in there indicate that the messages were logged from around 7am that the system was having trouble writing to /dev/hda. All my other X windows were frozen so I had to restart the machine. During the POST the computer reported that the hard disk had failed and did not boot from it. When the drive spins I can hear a sound like something is rubbing. The drive is only a few weeks old and I intend to get it replaced by the vendor as soon as I salvage my data from it. The drive was partitioned into several slices in / /var /usr /etc /home /tmp //backup /dos_drive_c and /dos_drive_d. What I would really like to rescue is /home and /dos_drive_d as these are the partitions with my data. All the rest can be recreated by reinstalling some of my applications. The machine runs both Win95 / Linux (Debian 2.0 with kernel 2.0.34) . My backup plan has been to copy some of my data to /backup. This happens on Monday mornings so the data in there is a week old. It is also unwisely on the same drive as the crashed drive. Dumb move on my part. I'll have to change that to backup to another drive. Sorry I got so long winded but starting the week with a bad drive is not my idea of fun. Any help is appreciated. later jmb ---- Jones MB : <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.ziplink.net/~jonesmb/ Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null