On Fri, 2004-08-06 at 10:11, John Andersen wrote:
On Thursday 05 August 2004 11:44 pm, Filip Sergeys wrote:
This disk gets backed up every night, but we got stroke by a lightening during the day cutting of all power. When rebooting this was the result. Guess what, the sales guy's just saved a bunch of important stuff on it and they want I back :-(
Hey, Tell those sales guys this was a message from GOD.
Funny, but not exactly what I had hoped for ;)
With lightning involved you are lucky to have a machine at all.
The drive manufacturer might have utilities on their web site that can try to repair this. I know hitachi has some and so does seagate (seatools). But realistically, the best bet is run down to the computer store and get another drive, re-install, and then start copying your data back on (unless the lightning took the backup device too).
Done and they are 98% happy, except for that piece of data :) Thanx for pointing me to seatools, I will try that.
Then you can fiddle around trying to recover the data. Fiddle around: suggestions for tools, commandline arguments, strategies, ...? Is there a way to get into the heart of the filesystem?
I've known
systems to mount drives as long as it wasn't the boot or root drive, but realistically, unless you want to go to heroic extremes and send it to Ontrack or something, it seems unlikely.
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