Tool for recovering data from crashed HD

[Ow Mun Heng]

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Jay Daniels
> Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2004 10:08 PM
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases
> Subject: Re: Tool for recovering data from crashed HD
> 
> 
> On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 06:19:42PM +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> > I've got a HD which seems to have problems. 
> > ( I can't boot from it)
> > 
> > I would like to know what tools are available to actually
> > perform some kind of data recovery or something.
> > 
> > Currently, I'm just booting into a copy of Knoppix and then mounting
> > the HD and copying (what can be copied) off the drive to 
> another network 
> > location.
> > 
> > Sometimes it works. sometimes it just hangs at scp.
> > 
> > Pointers??
> 
> I think you can create an iso or hard drive image to save the data if
> you can read the hd then mount the iso.
> 
> dd if=/dev/hd3 of=hd.iso  #if hd3 is the hd drive
> mkdir /mnt/iso
> mount -o loop -t iso9660 hd.iso /mnt/iso
> cd /mnt/iso && ls -la

I'm actually afraid to stress the drive. It's already started to make
really loud noises.. (imagine 10 forks scratching on 1 ceramic plate)

I only managed to save like ~100MB of the files. The one main file 
which needed to be copied was a 1.5G outlook pst file. So.. that
one's really gone. 

Boss already sent it back to Compaq for warranty.

FYI - it's a Toshiba 80GB Drive for a Compaq nx1000 or nx7010 (I forget)
that's just boought a little over 2 months ago.


> Of course that doesn't answer why you can't boot, but if the hd is
> failing, you may be able to save the data.  Did you mean you can't
> boot from it or you can't mount or access it?  What boot errors do you
> get?

I think it really is failing. Each time it reads a bad/?? sector, kernel 
message will spill out and telling, hda sect/bad or something. U know by 
reading the message that it's really going down.