Hey list, A few days ago one of my parents' computers stopped booting, and they don't have any external backups, so I have to try and backup the data. BIOS POST revealed that the cause was a hard disk error. I swapped the drive in as a slave on another comp of mine and attempted to see if I could salvage any data. However, the kernel doesn't recognize the partitions and create /dev entries for them. Gparted wouldn't even recognize the disk. At this point, I assumed it was a partition table problem, as dmesg revealed that the kernel does see the disk:
# dmesg | grep sdb [ 3.965910] sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] 0 512-byte logical blocks: (0 B/0 B) [ 3.965956] sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off [ 3.965959] sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 [ 3.965980] sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA [ 3.966229] sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk From here, it looks like the disk geometry is shot (0 blocks!?), but I figured I'd see if I could rescue. However, I don't get promising results from the standard disk tools: # testdisk /dev/sdb --snip-- Unable to open file or device /dev/sdb --snip-- # gpart /dev/sdb *** Fatal error: dev(/dev/sdb): seek failure. Both programs give "no disk" errors with /dev/sdc, so I know it's getting at the disk, but just completely failing to do anything. If anyone knows how I can recover the data off the hard disk, it would be much appreciated. Thanks, -- rbmj -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20111003160723.02090...@rbmj-laptop.mason.homeunix.org
