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How we salvaged the Web site from a failing HD

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

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Here is the summary of what I did:

Install a second hard drive.
Configure bios to see the new hard drive
Boot to the Knoppix CD using the boot options "knoppix 2 noapic" (noapic setting allowed Knoppix to see my SATA drives. You may ne required this setting)
From the root prompt run "dd_rescue -r /dev/sda /dev/sdb". Repeat as necessary until you are happy with the results.
From the root prompt run "e2fsck -b nnnnnn /dev/sdb7" to repair the copied file system on the new hard drive.
Reboot the Knoppix CD by running "Shutdown -r now" from a root prompt (This is so Knoppix can read the new partitions on the new hard drive)
After booting to Knoppix a second time, go in and salvage, copy and or save the existing files on the new partition on the new hard drive.
Shutdown Knoppix and the Server.
Rearrange the hard drives so that only the new drive was operational.
Reconfigure the bios to see the new drive arrangment.
Boot to the new hard drive.
Fix any remaining errors that were reported.
Put the server back in operation.

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