On Thursday 26 December 2002 20:11 pm, Hilary Hertzoff wrote:
On Thursday 26 December 2002 20:02, Hilary Hertzoff wrote: I have a hard drive that crashed a couple of months ago. I've attached it as a slave to a new system and have been trying various recovery options. I used dd_rescue to make a copy on my new hard drive and pulled some data off of it. Thankfully, I was able to rebuild the most important lost file. (Talk about a lesson in backing up the system regularly)
However, now I'm wondering if the filesystem on the drive might be recoverable. I have the original disk geometry. I wouldn't need to be able to boot the drive, I just want access to the file system, so I could identify the files that I want to copy to the new drive.
The original drive was running SuSE 8.0 with an ext2 filesystem and 3 partiitions.../dev/hdc1 was the boot partition, /dev/hdc2 was a swap partition, and /dev/hdc3 held the files that I'm looking for. I did try mounting the dd_rescue file and failed.
I also tried running parted and got an unrecognized disk label message. So I tried mklabel and got a read/write error.
I've tried fdisk, e2fsck, and gpart with minimal success,
The only thing I can think of to try is reinstalling SuSE. Back when it first crashed, I tried mounting the drive using the cds and it didn't recognize that there was a system on the disk. I'm afraid that SuSE's install program will format the disk and I'll lose the contents.
Any thoughts? Hilary
1) The install program won't format the drive unless you allow it to. Don't let the install make new partitions. If you are using old partitions, you will have to tell it to format them. 2) Have you tried using the 'rescue' boot on the install CD? Using that should really accomplish the same thing. If the drive is usable, you should be able to access it. -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Bruce S. Marshall bmarsh@bmarsh.com Bellaire, MI 12/26/02 20:22 + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ "No amount of careful planning will ever replace dumb luck."