Daniel Bauer wrote:
Hi everybody,
The HD (with Suse 10.0, ReiserFS) of my moms old laptop is broken and I thought, maybe there's a possibility to revover her e-mails and some OOo textfiles, but google wouldn't help me (I probably search wrong - find only commercial ads...).
There are not many Tools for ReiserFS.
Trying to mount /dev/hda1 or /dev/hda2 with the rescue system fails (it says: partition doesn't exist) The openSuse install CD says, "parted cannot format the disk". reiserfsck says the SuperBlock cannot be read - and I cannot rebuild the Superblock with reiserfsck because I don't know what answers I should type to the questions it asks....
The trouble seems to be that not even partitions are recognised. Try a bootable Knoppix CD, that distribution is designed to run without a harddisk, and has a range of tools to analyse hdds and partitions. Try to recover the partitions first. Then you might even be able to read all data. If you are serious about it, you should try to make a dd_rescue image of the broken hdd first and then tinker with the image to rescue as much as possible.
The only thing I know is that it's a 20 G disk with a swap, a root and a home partition (with reiserfs). But I don't even know the sizes of the partitions or the version of reiserfs...
Is the hdd still visible in your notebook Bios?
Is there a Linux tool to make a bootable CD, that will then search the disk and give possibility to save found files to a floppy?
Knoppix, testdisk. You don't get any automatic rescue options, the work will have to be done by yourself. -- Sandy List replies only please! Please address PMs to: news-reply2 (@) japantest (.) homelinux (.) com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org