Re: hard disk crash

Am Fri, 31 Aug 2007 23:19:26 +0200
steef <steefvanduin@zonnet.nl> schrieb:

> hi you all out there,
>
> one of my hd's crashed completely for unknown reasons. i tried several
> solutions without any result. knoppix 5.0 recognized the partition
> with data (/dev/hda1) but refuses to mount it: 'i could not determine
> the filesystem etc. etc. '
>

[...]

Use "dd_rescue" to copy the contents of the harddisk to an image. Then you can use this image to try to extract some data. If you use ext2 filesystem you can try e2retrieve, e2salvage and/or e2extract to recover some data from the damaged partitions.

Peter

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Peter Greff 


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