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Written by Luther Pollok   
Sunday, 26 February 2006
Article Index
How we salvaged the Web site from a failing HD
DD_Rescue to the Rescue
My Game Plan
Running DD_Rescue
Checking the New Drive
Test Boot the New Drive
Summry of the Process
References

Just for the heck of it, I swapped over to my new hard drive and booted to it to see what might happen.

There were a few minor issues that were easily corrected by uninstalling and reinstalling a few packages to recreate the required missing directory structure, but that was about it.

Being that the system was back up, I decided to forego running Spinrite on the failing hard drive because the drive was now untrustworthy and I did not want it installed on my server.

Total Server Down time including research and a run to my local Circuit City to pick up a replacment drive was about 7 hours.  Most of this time was spent on reading up on what to do and running dd_rescue 3 times (approx 1hr 15min each run)



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