Here's an update on my data recovery situation: There's two drives that I'm trying to copy files off, hda and hdb. Both drives were having read/write errors in my friends computer. I was able to get about 7 - 10 GB of data from each before the errors started occurring. So I put the drives, on at a time, into one of my computers. I was then able to copy every file from hda without errors. hdb, however, is now in the freezer. I wasn't even able to mount the drive. While the kernel detected it, nothing could read it, not even fdisk.
I hope this freezer thing works out. The most recent files are on hdb, and I only got about half of them before the drive croaked on me. If it does, I will be amazed. I tried running a surface scan on hdb, and the drive just kept spinning up and down for about 15 mins, and it crashed the scan program! Also, I have found that using rsync in this situation is really nice. Since I'm not exactly sure what files I was able to copy my first attempt, I can save time in future attempts by having rsync only copy files that are different. Fingers crossed, Grant On 11/12/05, Grant Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My friend brought over a crashed windows box and wants me to see if i > can recover any files from the hard drives. I got them mounted in > knoppix and was able to copy some files to a network share, but after > a while, there are a lot of read/write errors and cp fails. > > Does anyone know a better way to recover files off of a failing hard > drive in knoppix (or any other live CD)? > > Thanks, > Grant > _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
