Re: Trying to rescue a hard disk -- weired feedback??
- From: Ric Moore <wayward4now@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 03:58:22 -0500
On Sat, 2008-01-19 at 14:02 -0600, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
max bianco wrote:
If you don't want to remove the drive, you can try and recover the
On Jan 18, 2008 12:12 PM, max bianco <maximilianbianco@xxxxxxxxx
<mailto:maximilianbianco@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
On Jan 18, 2008 11:59 AM, William Case <billlinux@xxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:billlinux@xxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Hi;
I have never been a tech support person. But I can see why some
of them
go crazy.
My friend just told me that his drive 'broke' while he was trying to
increase the size of his WindowXP partition while in Fedora using
'parted'. His description "Everything was working fine then
'parted'
burped and didn't finish moving files and the disk hasn't worked
since".
It sounds like he has lost all his partitions. He can't
re-install the
Windows part. He bought his re-furbished computer that included
WindowsXP Pro from a reputable dealer. He failed to get an
installation
disk. I assume the .cab files have been stored in the Windows
partition.
As unlikely as it seems, can anyone suggest a way to find a
bootable
partition, Fedora or Windows. If I can get to Fedora, there is
a chance
I can rescue his Fedora files, and perhaps mount the Windows
partition
to save some of his Windows files. If not, I will tell him to
phone the
dealer and see if they can help.
Although the situation is not desperate, desperate (i.e. only
personal
and household data are on his files) I am regarding this as a
learning
challenge that contains some bragging rights. Any suggestions
gratefully received.
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Assuming you can mount the drive . Try some of the data recovery
tools in the repos
testdisk has worked for me in the past, dd_rescue is another and
there are more but my experience with data recovery is limited.
Always read the man pages before you use the tools.
-Max
I wasn't very clear. Hook the drive up to a working Linux box. Most of
the data recovery tools are there for most of the distributions. There
are some live cd's that contain such tools but i can't for the life of
me think of one right now.
-Max
partition table using a bootable CD. I keep a copy of the System
Rescue CD for tasks like this.
Huh, mine knocks like a 52 Ford that tossed a rod, and I can't get the
system to get past the kernel load during boot, if I attach that drive.
I'll try the rescue CD, but I doubt it'll get any further. Ric
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