[HD failure]

[Ben Pfaff]

Matt Graham <danceswithcrows@usa.net> writes:

> Mark Szidik <szidikm@mlcnet.org> wrote:
> > 
> > I have a person with a failed HD that needs some data recovered
> > from it.  There is a guy named Skip in the OS/2 users group who
> > does this.  Anybody know how I can reach him?
> 
> If this is not a mechanical failure, but semi-corrupt filesystem data, you can
> probably get a look at the disk using Tom's RootBoot as long as they used FAT
> or ext2.  The Linuxcare BBC should work too (and it has fscking tools for DOS,
> as well as NTFS read support IIRC.)
> 
> If the mechanical failure is just a few bad sectors and not grinding noises
> coming from the drive, you can get reasonable results by using dd_rescue

Another worthwhile strategy is `e2fsck -c', which will find bad
sectors and remap them.  I used this last week when the HDD on my
laptop started to develop bad sectors.
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