help for a wounded disk drive...

2008-03-21 Thread William Bulley
I damaged a Seagate 80 GB EIDE drive that was attached to a FreeBSD 5.4 system (as ufs) some time ago, and I would like to recover the data on this drive - if that is possible. All positive suggestions are welcome. The drive is mechanically and electrically good. I just can't mount it and use

Re: help for a wounded disk drive...

2008-03-21 Thread Derek Ragona
At 12:39 PM 3/21/2008, William Bulley wrote: I damaged a Seagate 80 GB EIDE drive that was attached to a FreeBSD 5.4 system (as ufs) some time ago, and I would like to recover the data on this drive - if that is possible. All positive suggestions are welcome. The drive is mechanically and

Re: help for a wounded disk drive...

2008-03-21 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 01:39:50PM -0400, William Bulley wrote: I damaged a Seagate 80 GB EIDE drive that was attached to a FreeBSD 5.4 system (as ufs) some time ago, and I would like to recover the data on this drive - if that is possible. All positive suggestions are welcome. The drive

Re: help for a wounded disk drive...

2008-03-21 Thread Dimitri Yioulos
On Friday 21 March 2008 1:39 pm, William Bulley wrote: I damaged a Seagate 80 GB EIDE drive that was attached to a FreeBSD 5.4 system (as ufs) some time ago, and I would like to recover the data on this drive - if that is possible. All positive suggestions are welcome. The drive is

Re: help for a wounded disk drive...

2008-03-21 Thread Ezat - Ezatech
Hey William, Was in a similar situation about a month ago.. I knew the drive was on its way out but once it went, i could not retrieve the data nor use it under freebsd even under a new system. My drive had physical issues. I got the drive, stuck it in a 3.5inch usb enclosure and plugged it

Re: help for a wounded disk drive...

2008-03-21 Thread D Hill
On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 at 08:47 +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] confabulated: Hey William, Was in a similar situation about a month ago.. I knew the drive was on its way out but once it went, i could not retrieve the data nor use it under freebsd even under a new system. My drive had physical issues.