Re: recovering from "rm -rf"

[michael chang <thenewme91@gmail.com>]

On 8/5/05, David Masover <ninja@slaphack.com> wrote:
> I've got a Reiser4 partition which I just moved (mv) a bunch of stuff
> off of, onto another drive.  The other drive died immediately after.
> 
> I'm trying to repair the other drive, and to find any backups, but is
> there a reasonable chance to recover from the good drive?  Maybe force
> fsck.reiser4 to rebuild stuff... somehow?  It's sort of the equivalent
> of an "rm -rf".

I have no idea what you're trying to say; can you identify your drives
by e.g. Drive A and Drive B?  However, I've heard that Spinrite
(grc.com) is known to be pretty good at drive recovery, and supposedly
compatable with Linux partitions.  Requires an i386 compatable
machine, and I believe you need Windows to write the diskette/iso
which you can boot the recovery system from.  Haven't tried it though.

What are you trying to do?  Format a broken hard drive so you can
write to it again, or recover data you deleted unintentionally?  A
"dead" hard drive usually may be usable, but using one is extremely
dangerous (read: you're best off throwing it away, because any data
stored on it would have to have a backup on another e.g. hard drive
anyways, so you shouldn't use it).  For all you know, the drive could
have died because the internals wore out/broke, or because your cable
died/broke/etc.

-- 
~Mike
 - Just my two cents
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