On Saturday 18 February 2006 19:08, motivated wrote: > >> I try and dump the contents << > > I was thinking of putting the hd into my mandrake box connected to the > cd strap and seeing if I could access it from there. > > If thats stupid please just say so as kindly as is possible ;) No, that's not stupid at all, in fact it's quite sensible.
> If nothing else, does that give us any other possibilities Yes. It does. The important point is that you do not want to access your dying disk any more than is _absolutely_ necessary. i.e. One read of the whole thing. Hopefully you have enough disk space to copy the whole of the crook disk. See:- http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/ddrescue/ > I do have a Knoppix.cd It has the above mentioned program on it. -- CS
