On Saturday 01 November 2003 17:10, Jerry Feldman wrote:

On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 20:42:13 +0000

"Edward F. Howson" <eddie.howson@dsl.pipex.com> wrote:

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Just had a crash on my system after trying to play a dvd. My home partition refuses to mount and reiserfsck reports an unrecoverable error, possibly bad block. Fortunately, I managed to backup my friend's files on CD today just before the crash. Unfortunately, my files have not been backed-up. Any ideas on

1) how I could possibly repair my drive. 2) retrieve some of my data.

Is there a way using something like ddrescue? Any help would be MUCH appreciated.

Boot into the rescue system. run reiserfsck on your affected hard drive. Don't use any advanced options until it gives you some info. Reiserfsck can only repair an unmounted drive.

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Thanks Jerry I have done that already. Run without options, it said that I need to do --rebuild-tree. I tried that and it failed and reported an input/output error and suggested that this is a physical problem ect. I will eventually try to format the partition and then see what happens. Before that I would like to retrieve as much data as I can. Since the error reported one corrupt block I was hoping that there would be some way of reading other undamaged areas. Eddie