cannot mount "bad" drive

From: Keith Ng (ngkeith_at_triumf.ca)
Date: 08/27/03 

Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 07:42:50 -0700

Hi,

I have a PC with Redhat 7.3 installed. It is only able to boot to the
maintance mode (I assume is run level 1) because fsck encounter some error.
I found that there is some bad sector in the hard drive after running some
hard disk diagnostic utility.

Now, I would like to backup the data inside the drive. What I did is I
disconnected the drive from the current PC and connect it as a slave drive
in another PC with Redhat 7.3 installed. My attempt is to mount this "bad"
drive to my another PC and copy the file onto it. However, when I boot up
the computer after then connection, my working PC goes to the maintance mode
too since it found some problem on the "new" hard drive. I tried mounting
the drive and it doesn't seem to work. And the working hard disk only mount
as read-only and just the root partition is mounted instead of all the
partition in the fstab.

Can anyone tell me how I can backup the file or even mount the "bad" drive
so that I can check the file.

Thanks a lot.

Keith

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