[PLUG] Recovering as much as I can...

Galen Seitz galens at seitzassoc.com
Tue Mar 14 21:47:58 UTC 2006


AthlonRob <athlonrob at axpr.net> wrote:

> My laptop hard drive died on me.  I have a complete backup from when I
> installed the drive in September, but would rather like to get some of
> the data I had sitting on the drive if I can.  I haven't lost anything
> critical... just a few, "oh shoot, I'll have to try and get that phone
> number again" type pieces of data I had sitting in IM logs and whatnot.

Sorry to hear that. 

> The drive boots the Linux kernel but errors with UnrecoverableError
> messages as it attempts to mount the filesystem (ReiserFS 3).  This
> leaves me unable to get ANYTHING as everything was in the single FS
> (of course).  So I ask... what would you guys try and do to try and
> get some of the data off the drive?  There are tools, I think, that
> will skip over the sections that error out on me, to try and get as
> much of the data off as possible, but I've not used them before and
> don't know for sure how I'd then try and get data off the partially
> damaged filesystem image... last I read, Reiser wasn't exactly well
> known for their recovery tools.  :-\

I haven't used it myself, but dd_rescue seems to be a popular choice.
http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/ddrescue/

galen



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