Re: recover data from a hd

[Patrick Rittich <prittich@dowco.com>]

Borislav Petkov wrote:
>  Hi there,
>
>  my hd died this morning and I know it is too late and I don't have a
>  backup but is there a way to do a raw read and gather all the
>  information that can be read? One thing might be kind of a problem, however, 
>  since the hd is damaged at its very beginning and attempting to mount it gives
>  I/O error on sector 0 and the consecutive ones. So, is there a way to jump 
>  after those erroneous sectors and read what's left. Any pointers would be 
>  greatly appreciated, thanks!
>
>  P.S. I'm off to buy a new hd. Any particular brands I should keep away
>  from?
>
>  Regards,
>  Boris.
I had a hd die on a server just last week. To get the data off it, I 
just plugged it into my workstation, and then booted up with Knoppix. It 
found the drive, mounted it, and just let me access the data with no 
fuss. I then ftp'd all the data I needed to another server so it was 
accessible to me when I was ready to copy it over again.

I guess whether this works depends on how f'd up the drive is, but this 
was pretty quick and easy.

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Patrick Rittich
prittich@dowco.com
Dowco Computer Systems Ltd.