On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 11:44 PM, Kumar Appaiah <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >>
Let the disk sit idle for a couple of days and then power it up. I have had some limited luck with the trick. You can also try "hard disk in freezer" trick (google search on the keywords) >> 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. > testdrive is in the "System Rescue Cd" Live CD. <www.sysresccd.org> Good luck and let us know how it works out for you. -- Arun Khan _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
