Re: [opensuse] Is there a way to read data from a hdd, with a worm eaten bootsector?
- From: Jerry Houston <jerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:58:44 -0700
Oddball wrote:
Unfortunately my networkdrive became unaccessible, due to some worm, that has eaten parts of the bootsector.
This drive contains my whole movie and music DB, all my photoos and apps that i wanted to keep.
I know that the real data is unaffected, but do not know how to get it off that drive, and onto some other media, like DL-DVD's..
Does anyone have a clue?
If I were in that situation, the first thing I'd do is stick the drive in an external enclosure and try to mount it as a drive that doesn't need to boot. Seems like you've already done that, though.
Te second thing I'd do is try to run Spinrite against it, and see if the drive can be recovered. Although my experience with it is inconclusive (the problem I tried to "fix" using Spinrite actually turned out to be a damaged SATA cable), friends have universally praised it for being able to restore data that was once throught to be lost.
Spinrite isn't free. But by all reports, it's certainly worth its small cost, especially if it saves all your data. Besides emergency data recovery, it's also said to be excellent for periodic maintenance, to keep drives working well.
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