Re: hard disk crash

Florian Kulzer wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 23:19:26 +0200, steef wrote:
>
>> 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. '
>>
>
> [...]
>
>
>> somebody out there who can give me a helping hand to repair somehow the hd
>> or point me to a method/way or program to rescue at least my
>> holiday-photographs from france i put on the hd two hours before the
>> crash...?
>>
>
> You can try to repair your partition table with TestDisk and/or to
> recover your photos with PhotoRec; both these tools are available in
> package "testdisk". The "scalpel" package is another option for trying
> to extract the files if you cannot restore the partition table.
>
> In any case it is probably a good idea to create a backup image of the
> whole disk first, as Peter Greff has already suggested.
>
>

thank you all for your response! i combine your advices and try them all out. i shall let you know the results. thanks again,

steef

drs. steef van duin
publicist/journalist
groningen, holland

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