help rescuing a crashed hard drive
Are there any utilities that I can use to salvage data from a drive that the
BIOS reports as dead?
This morning I woke up to a ticking sound from my hard drive. It is a 5.7GB
Seagate drive I upgraded to about 6 weeks ago. I had an xconsole up and
messages in there indicate that the messages were logged from around 7am that
the system was having trouble writing to /dev/hda.
All my other X windows were frozen so I had to restart the machine. During
the POST the computer reported that the hard disk had failed and did not boot
from it. When the drive spins I can hear a sound like something is rubbing.
The drive is only a few weeks old and I intend to get it replaced by the
vendor as soon as I salvage my data from it.
The drive was partitioned into several slices in / /var /usr /etc /home /tmp
//backup /dos_drive_c and /dos_drive_d. What I would really like to
rescue is /home and /dos_drive_d as these are the partitions with my data.
All the rest can be recreated by reinstalling some of my applications. The
machine runs both Win95 / Linux (Debian 2.0 with kernel 2.0.34) . My backup
plan has been to copy some of my data to /backup. This happens on Monday
mornings so the data in there is a week old. It is also unwisely on the same
drive as the crashed drive. Dumb move on my part. I'll have to change that
to backup to another drive.
Sorry I got so long winded but starting the week with a bad drive is not my
idea of fun. Any help is appreciated.
later
jmb
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