[plug] [OT] HDD Recovery

[Steve Grasso]

I've built a floppy boot-disk combo specificaly for HDD recovery. I'll sling 
you the images if you're interested.

Steve


On Monday 22 October 2001 09:34, skribe wrote:
> 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.
>
> skribe