On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 10:03:54PM +0530, Shrinivasan T wrote: > I have a hard disk almost dead. > It is recognized in bios some times. > > When booted with that harddisk with a ubuntu live cd, > sudo fdisk -l > > is showing nothing. > > The disk is not recognized by ubuntu. > It is not showing any disk or partitions. > > But still, can hear the sound "tak tak tak" sound from the hard disk. > > Is it any possibilities to get data from that hard disk?
testdisk should always be tried out. It might not be present on the Live CD, but you should be able to apt-get it with sufficient RAM/swap. HTH. Kumar -- "...Unix, MS-DOS, and Windows NT (also known as the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly)." (By Matt Welsh) _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
