Re: [opensuse] Trying to recover a hard drive

Fergus Wilde wrote:
On Monday 30 April 2007 02:54, Pueblo Native wrote:

Here's a problem one of my friends sent me, his words.

i had a fedora 2 box crap out so i took the HD out and put it in a USB
enclosure to plug into another fedora 2 box.

i mounted the drive but the only options i see when i LS it is:
config-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl
grub
initrd-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl
kernal.h
lost+found
System.map-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl
vmlinux-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl
vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl


I think he has in fact mounted only one partition on the drive, probably
whichever one he mounted as /boot. If the USB mounted damaged disk were to
be /dev/sd1, for example, he should have a go at mount and
listing /dev/sd1b, /dev/sd1c, etc., until he finds the one with his data or
other vital matter on it. If it were me, I'd then copy the data safely off,
check to make good and sure that I'd *really* got all the vital data off, and
then start again with a fresh install on that 'crapped out' disk. That's if I
had reason to believe the crapping out to be software rather than hardware
related. If the disk is knackered then he would be throwing good time after
bad by doing anything other than discarding it.
HTH
Fergus



Thanks for the advice. Usually the USB drives I see are FAT, so I
didn't even think of it as having more than one partition.

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