On 10/12/12 02:32 PM, Arne de Boer wrote:
Hello, You could also give photorec a try, it's in the testdisk package. -------------- PhotoRec is file data recovery software designed to recover lost pictures from digital camera memory or even Hard Disks. It has been extended to search also for non audio/video headers. It searchs for ... ---------------------
Two separate issue are involved. The major one is that his drive hardware is failing or has failed. If he can copy the drive's contents to another (same size or larger) unit (using ddrescue), the file system may be substantially intact. If the file system isn't mountable or if it has major corruption, photorec may recover some of the files.
If the hardware is not functioning, it's probably time to call in the pros to recover the data.