Re: fdisk "unable to open" /dev/hdb

On 8/30/06, neidorff <neidorff@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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,

Mark

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What is the output of dmesg for hdb? That should give you a good
idea. You could run foremost (Linux free file carver available from
sourceforge.net) on the physical device (assuming Linux can at least
see the physical device - you can test this with something as simple
as strings /dev/hdb | head). That would allow you to carve out
certain file types to another drive before re-formatting it.

Jacques B.

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