Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 28 Nov 1997 09:43:02 +1100 | From | Richard Gooch <> | Subject | Re: [HELP] disk crash |
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Rik van Riel writes: > > I know this is off-topic on linux-kernel, but since this is > the place where the experts hang around I'll ask here. > (Harald and Ingo in particular will have experience with things > like this). > > I bought a 4.3gb _CONNER_ drive in febuari (sold to me as > a Seagate drive :( )... Since wednesday 4 of 9 partitions > have gone bad... > the partions are my dos d: drive, a partition I haven't used > in the last few weeks, my source-code drive and my /usr/local. > The bad sectors are in such a place that doing a ls in /usr/local > gives a kernel panic !!! > > Now, I'm looking for a program that can copy the partition to > an imagefile so I can recover at least some of the files on it > (/usr/local contains about 80megs of programs I compiled/configured > myself, of which inn is the easiest one...) > > sorry for being off-topic,
Yep, you're off-topic. However, you may find the LSM entry below of use:
Begin3 Title: Disc recovery tools for EXT2FS Version: 1.0 Entered-date: 16APR97 Description: A few disc recovery tools (copy_blocks and copy_listed_blocks) and an inode recovery tool for the EXT2 filesystem (e2fsfind). Keywords: utilities, recovery, filesystem, Ext2fs Author: rgooch@atnf.csiro.au (Richard Gooch) Maintained-by: rgooch@atnf.csiro.au (Richard Gooch) Primary-site: ftp.atnf.csiro.au /pub/people/rgooch/linux Alternate-site: sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/system/recovery linux.nrao.edu /pub/people/rgooch/linux Platforms: Linux 1.2.x/1.3.x/2.0.x/2.1.x requires e2fsprogs-1.07 or later to build e2fsfind Copying-policy: GPL End
Regards,
Richard....
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