fdisk "unable to open" /dev/hdb

From: neidorff <neidorff@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 20:29:49 -0400

Hi folks,

My wife's hard disk stopped booting, and her backup is corrupt. (of course)

I took the disk and put it as a slave (/dev/hdb) in a linux machine. Booted
up. fdisk reported that it is "unable to open" the drive. Now this is
weird. The bios reports that the drive is there when I power on. This is a
different error than a missing disk, that error is "unable to read". Anyone
have any idea what type of failure I have on the disk and how to read it to
recover data?

Many, many thanks,

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