-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 27 October 2003 02:55 pm, R. Douglas Barbieri wrote: > I have a hard drive that seems to be completely hosed. It has some > important data I'd like to retrieve from it, but I can't even run "fdisk > -l /dev/hda" without receiving a plain I/O error. The bios, however, > sees the drive and recognizes it. A search through "dmesg" output shows > that it's being recognized as well. > > I tried using "testdisk", and again, when the disk is accessed, I just > get I/O errors. Is this disk totally a lost cause, or is there another > tool I can try?
Put in the freezer for a few hours. I used that trick to recover some data from a drive at work (backup was a week old, but didn't have what i needed) - -- PGP/GPG Fingerprint: 3B30 C6BE B1C6 9526 7A90 34E7 11DF 44F3 7217 7BC7 On pgp.mit.edu, import with `gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-key 72177BC7` Also available at http://www.cal.net/~ryan/ryan_at_mother_dot_com.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/nbJLEd9E83IXe8cRAvUfAKCwxhbGm1b54yWk9Y69zTvka8BZggCdFfSo e61AIjPuO+IsNgcoOsEFcIg= =wxLz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
