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SKOGGERS
May 17th, 2009, 01:27 PM
Hi a newbie to ubuntu but i was told it may help me solve a problem so i thought i would give it a go and to be honest i am currently impressed

heres my problem

i have a lacie 300 gig ethernet edmini external hard disk that has failed. the hard disk is fine and i would like to retrieve my backup data off the drive if possible. I am under the impression that a linux install is the only was to see the contents of the drive and retrieve the data onto another hard disk. Is it possible. i have dont a ubuntu install witht the drive attached

below is a copy of the terminal window showing how the drives are connected

skoggers@KOONSKAU-PC:~$ sudo fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 300.0 GB, 300069052416 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 36481 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x4d4d4445

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 31 248976 5 Extended
/dev/sda2 32 48 136552+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/sda3 49 36482 292650624 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/sda5 1 16 128457 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 17 17 8001 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 18 30 104391 83 Linux
/dev/sda8 31 31 8001 83 Linux

Disk /dev/sdb: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x555e7b7d

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 9327 74919096 83 Linux
/dev/sdb2 9328 9729 3229065 5 Extended
/dev/sdb5 9328 9729 3229033+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris

the information i want is on sda3 can someone please tell me if / how i can retrieve it

thanks in advance

Mark Phelps
May 18th, 2009, 02:09 AM
I'm presuming that you're running from a liveCD since you say you don't have an Ubuntu install with the drives attached, so the simplest way is to do the following:
1) plugin an external drive. Should get a desktop icon showing the drive, and a Nautilus file window as well.
2) Go into Places on the top menu, and under Removable Media, click the drive you want to read. You may have to experiment to find the correct drive.
3) Copy the files and folders from the mounted drive to the external drive.
4) When done, close the Nautilus windows, right-click on each of the drive icons on the desktop, and select Unmount Volume.

SKOGGERS
May 18th, 2009, 01:44 PM
hi

im not running from a live cd i have installed ubuntu on the 80 gig hard disk shown above. i then connected the drive i have taken out of the lacie edmini ethernet disk. i can not see the attached drive moutned anywhere to copy the files from

the information i want to keep i would think is on one of the two fat32 partitions SDA2 or more likely SDA3. all 8 are from the one 300 gig drive i connected

i tried this in terminal window

sudo mount -t vfat -o umask=000 /dev/sda3 /osshare

this is what happens when i do

wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda3,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or s


i cant get ubuntu to mount the drive so that i can take the information off it

hope this helps you help me :-)