So the frozen hard drive trick didn't work for me. However, I did get the hard drive to power up once more and I was able to get all of the data from it that I couldn't get before. My friend was very excited to get his files back. He's a musician and had a lot of compositions and audio files that would be impossible to replace. Thank you knoppix.
Grant On 11/13/05, Grant Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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
