Re: crashed disk

2007-12-29 Thread Chris Lale
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi! > > I had a disk crash on my debian etch workstation and now I'm trying to > recover data from that drive, basicaly with dd, but i wonder if there > are better solutions. > There are some suggestions here: http://newbiedoc.berlios.de/wiki/How_to_rescue_data_from_a_c

Re: crashed disk

2007-12-28 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Backups before the crash? You need a functioning system. Don't power up that crashed disk until you are ready to pull all readable sectors off it into one image file. There are dedicated programmes to do this and will do multiple read tries. Note that this doe

Re: crashed disk

2007-12-28 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
u need a functioning system. Don't power up that crashed disk until you are ready to pull all readable sectors off it into one image file. There are dedicated programmes to do this and will do multiple read tries. Note that this does not involve mounting the disk. Use aptitude search functions

Re: crashed disk

2007-12-28 Thread Ron Johnson
On Friday December 28 2007 15:39:40 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi! > > I had a disk crash on my debian etch workstation and now I'm > trying to recover data from that drive, basicaly with dd, but i > wonder if there are better solutions. Restore from backup. But you knew that... --

crashed disk

2007-12-28 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi! I had a disk crash on my debian etch workstation and now I'm trying to recover data from that drive, basicaly with dd, but i wonder if there are better solutions. /h -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]