[plug] [OT] HDD Recovery

[skribe]

On Mon, 22 Oct 2001 09:26, Steve Grasso wrote:

> How dodgy is the drive? Has it failed completely? Is the MBR intact? What
> kind of file system is on it?

It depends on how you hold your mouth, the phase of the moon and bin laden's 
daughter's menstral cycle =). Essentially, sometimes it loads sometimes it 
doesn't.  When it does load I get a lilo prompt which allows me to boot up 
until it attempts to mount the root partition then I get a kernel panic when 
it can't find it.  It's a dual boot and windows won't load at all.  Neither 
will the bios setup (which is also located as a separate partition on the 
disk.)


> I've used LDE -- http://lde.sourceforge.net/ -- to successfully recover
> info from failing drives not accessible by 'normal' means (irrespective of
> file system) and rebuilt partition tables using a combination of:
> gpart --http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/user/76201/gpart/
> and parted -- ftp://gnu.mirror.pacific.net.au/gnu/parted/

Thanks.  I'll check them out.

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