View Full Version : [other] Dropped harddrive and possibly scratched a platter, any recovery software on ubuntu
john183
December 18th, 2008, 05:12 PM
I am sure you can all get the idea of my question from the title.
I would just copy all of the files off, but when i try to open some files the drive will automatically unmount and i have to reboot the computer with the drive attached to get it to work again.
Will DD work if run from a virtual terminal or am i likely to run into the same issue?
Thanks
damis648
December 18th, 2008, 05:19 PM
Ouch... looks difficult. In such a situation as yours, I would try dd. If that doesn't work, then you are stuck, unless you want to pay for a special machine to do it, I know my step-dad has one at work, it is a couple thousand dollar machine. Whether you will be able to find one though, I don't know.
logos34
December 18th, 2008, 05:47 PM
well, there is also ddrescue:
http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Dd_rescue
Endolith
January 23rd, 2009, 07:04 AM
GNU ddrescue is supposed to be faster and better than ddrescue. Install gddrescue, not ddrescue.
lykwydchykyn
January 23rd, 2009, 07:08 AM
testdisk comes with some recovery type utilities, like photorec. It's mostly for getting files from deleted partitions, though.
Endolith
January 23rd, 2009, 07:13 AM
I'm going to try gddrescue on a drive that died back in ~2002. :) Wish me luck!
john183
February 24th, 2009, 03:44 PM
So... long story short, the drive survived the fall, no damage. I ended up copying everything to a new drive directory by directory. Then used dd_rescue to move it all back. Unfortunately, i forgot that the drive i was using as backup was a 250G not 320G like the original. I had fun spending a week trying to get the computer to recognize that the original was actually 320G not 250G. a quick partition resize in a GParted liveCD session fixed that though. Thank you all for the help.
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