[TriLUG] data recovery

[lfwelty]

Have you eliminated all hw issues, pwr, cabling?
Have you tried booting the drive in another computer?

Is this a scsi or ide drive?

If ide, have you changed its master/slave settings
since the original failure? You may have better luck
booting off another drive and mounting the damaged 
drive as a slave on the ide...

If you want to try to handle the recovery yourself,
try taking a look at the LDP:
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Linux-Complete-Backup-and-Recovery-HOWTO/index.html

Good luck.

F.

JoJo Almario wrote:
> 
> The hard drive isn't even recognized in the bios.  I hada backup script
> running that would tar the files to a tape drive but somehow it only was
> able to get 2 gigs of the 5gigs.
> I tried the hdd in a different computer but it still wouldn't recognize in
> the bios.  It had the whole home partition on it, with the boot, root, /usr
> and /etc on the first drive.  No RAID so I can't rebuild.  I suck!  Any
> suggestions?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: trilug-admin at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-admin at trilug.org]On Behalf
> Of Sinner from the Prairy
> Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 4:46 PM
> To: trilug at trilug.org
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] data recovery
> 
> On Dilluns 18 Març 2002 10:32 am, JoJo Almario wrote:
> > Does anybody know of a data recovery service anywhere in the triangle.  My
> > drive went down  and the back up was corrupted.  There is mission critical
> > datat on there, so proximity is essential
> 
> What is the problem?
> 
> I recently recovered data from a HDD that had lost the partition table. I
> used
> TestDisk from http://www.cgsecurity.org , an open source solution.
> 
> Good luck!
> 
> Salut,
> Sinner
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