This is not entirely linux related.
A hard drive looks like it has failed on my laptop (dual boot Debian and other
OS on a toshiba pentium 233), this drive contains my e-mails and a few other
files (actually photos) I would like to retrieve.
The laptop boots as normal until it tries to read/mount the drive, where the
following messages appears
(1)hda: read_intr: status=0x59 {DriveReady, Seekcomplete DataRequest Error}
(2)hda: read_intr: error=0x40 {UncorrectableError} LBA sect = 4109054 sector12479
(3) endrequest: I/O error, dev 03:02 (hda) sector 12479
Following a couple more with different numbers the final message is
(?) EXT2-fs error (dev ide0(3,2) ext2_read_inode: unable to read inode block
- inode 92930 block 196612
(?+1) Kernel Panic no init found.
I can boot from a floppy and see the partition table using partboot, but cant
get any further using fschk
The questions I have are
is this totaly fatal? and
are there any open source tools that I could use to attempt to recover data?
Is do it yourself data recovery laughable?
Any references would be apreciated as my google searches have only turned up
commercial advertising but no How To's that I could start with.
Thanks
Steven O'Reilly
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