From: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
To: Cookie-Monster <cookie.monster@starfall.de>
Cc: reiserfs-list@namesys.com
Subject: Re: Re[2]: Problem with my HDD
Date: 30 May 2002 09:39:01 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1022765941.22608.1555.camel@tiny> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1782653645.20020530135824@starfall.de>
On Thu, 2002-05-30 at 07:58, Cookie-Monster wrote:
> Hi,
>
> >> If you can I'd consider getting an image of the drive. It may help with
> >> data recovery later. something like:
> >> dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/bigfilesystem/diskimage
>
> > That does not work on bad hard drives, resulting image would be almost useless.
> > BTW, this way it stops on first read error.
>
> I made an image of the disk. It's 3GB. Can I do anything with this
> thing now? i.e.: formatting the HDD and putting the image back on it.
> Then there would be no unreadable blocks anymore.
I would keep the original disk in its current state until you get all
the data back you can. If you think you've got a good copy, take the
original out of the machine and put it somewhere safe.
I'd start by running the copy through the latest version of reiserfsck.
-chris
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-05-30 13:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-05-29 17:49 Problem with my HDD Cookie-Monster
2002-05-29 17:53 ` Anders Widman
2002-05-29 21:19 ` Kuba Ober
2002-05-29 23:45 ` Robert Brockway
2002-05-30 0:09 ` Re[2]: " Anders Widman
2002-05-30 5:17 ` Oleg Drokin
2002-05-31 5:15 ` Billy Transue
2002-05-31 8:29 ` Oleg Drokin
2002-05-30 5:14 ` Oleg Drokin
2002-05-30 5:49 ` Robert Brockway
2002-05-30 11:35 ` Re[2]: " Cookie-Monster
2002-05-30 11:58 ` Cookie-Monster
2002-05-30 13:35 ` Re[3]: " Anders Widman
2002-05-30 13:39 ` Chris Mason [this message]
2002-05-30 13:59 ` Re[2]: " Robert Brockway
2002-05-30 5:21 ` Oleg Drokin
[not found] ` <781752530.20020530134323@starfall.de>
[not found] ` <20020530155353.B1060@namesys.com>
2002-06-02 18:02 ` Re[2]: " Cookie-Monster
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