| How we salvaged the Web site from a failing HD |
|
|
|
| Written by Luther Pollok | ||||||||||
| Sunday, 26 February 2006 | ||||||||||
Page 3 of 8 My original game plan was acquire another hard drive, copy what I could to the new drive and then run Spinright on the failing drive to see if it could be repaired good enough that I could copy my data to a new drive. The problem started out that nothing I tried would let me mount the failed partition to allow me to retrive any of my data. After reading up on all the suggestions on EXT3 data recovery I could find, they all basically said copy the failed partion to a good drive, and then run fsck (similar to chkdsk or scandisk in Windows) on the newly created partition on the new drive. They also emphatically said NEVER let anything write to your bad partition, this includes repair tools like fsck and scandisk until after you have retrieved your data. Once you were this far, you should be able to salvage most of the data from the backup drive and use this to rebuild your system. What most people where recommended for copying a partition from a failing drive to another was predominately dd_rescue. So I started by search for dd_rescue. After a considerable amount of searching I found that dd_rescue is a package already installed on most newer versions of Knoppix since before version 3.4. So I searched my latest Knoppix CD and low and behold, there it was. |
||||||||||
| Last Updated ( Saturday, 10 June 2006 ) | ||||||||||
| Next > |
|---|
