[TriLUG] data recovery

[JoJo Almario]

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From: trilug-admin at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-admin at trilug.org]On Behalf
Of lfwelty
Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 10:10 PM
To: trilug at trilug.org
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] data recovery


Have you eliminated all hw issues, pwr, cabling


Have you tried booting the drive in another computer?

Tried three different cables two different computers...doeen't recognize on
start up or in the bios.






Is this a scsi or ide drive?

IDE slaved to another IDE


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...

Tried it as master and slave...with and without other drives.

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.

Thanks.

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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