[TriLUG] Hard drive recovery

[Owen Berry]

On Sun, Aug 28, 2005 at 02:43:40PM -0400, Wing D Lizard wrote:
> TrackZeroNotFound sounds bad.
> 
> Can you read the partition table with fdisk?  If you can't ( and
> can't fix it), then you won't be able look it as a filesystem. 
> Maybe there are utilities that can look at the rest of the disk
> as a raw device, but I remember reading that if the first track
> went bad then the disk was gone.

Nope, fdisk doesn't work.

> 
> The partition table must go in the first track,  if it's bad then
> your out of luck.  The best chance is to find some way to read the
> raw data off of it and try to deduce the partitions, then the
> filesystems, then the files.  This is probably what the
> professionals do for the big bucks.

Yes, I think so.

> 
> Good luck.

Thanks!

> 
> Owen Berry wrote:
> 
> >The latest on this is that I managed to boot Knoppix running the bad drive
> >on a PCI IDE controller. The BIOS detects the drive, and so does Knoppix,
> >but complains bitterly about it.
> >
> >Here are some messages from dmesg:
> >hde: 16514064 sectors (8455 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=16383/16/63
> >
> hde: cache flushes not supported
> 
> >hde:hde: recal_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> >hde: recal_intr: error=0x02 { TrackZeroNotFound }
> >ide: failed opcode was: unknown
> > 
> >
> 
> 
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