I use a similar approach as well. However, I have multiple OS machines, so if any drive fails (or if I am working on a friends computer that has), I just pop it in one of my other OS machines, mount it and copy off what I can. -- Regards, Shawn Holland On Sun, 2008-08-24 at 08:28 -0700, N B Day wrote:
On Sun, 2008-08-24 at 10:57 -0400, Chuck Payne wrote:
Guy,
My main partion, crash. I am getting I/O errors, which I know means the drive is dead. What I need is to get on that partition so I can get my config off or any thing that I can. I have ran reiserfsck --fix-fixable, I get these error, cannot read teh bock 5672. reiserfsck is tell me I can use a -B flag to fix it but when I try to use that flag, I get the help menu. Please some know what I can do to get my data.
First, calm down. Take a walk. Don't panic and do stuff you'll regret later.
Have you got a Linux live CD? There are dozens of these; many are optimized for data rescue and recovery. See the listing at http://livecdlist.com.
I like and have often used Knoppix for this, but any one of many and a USB key or external drive will do the job.
Good luck.
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