From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 20 03:56:21 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5746016A4CE for ; Mon, 20 Sep 2004 03:56:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mproxy.gmail.com (rproxy.gmail.com [64.233.170.203]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F45643D53 for ; Mon, 20 Sep 2004 03:56:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from subhro.kar@gmail.com) Received: by mproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id v30so1436734rnb for ; Sun, 19 Sep 2004 20:56:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.38.179.69 with SMTP id b69mr21181rnf; Sun, 19 Sep 2004 20:56:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.38.206.15 with HTTP; Sun, 19 Sep 2004 20:56:18 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 09:26:18 +0530 From: Subhro To: Jonathon McKitrick In-Reply-To: <20040919215851.GA23394@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <20040919215851.GA23394@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Need help with dying drive/restoring data X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Subhro List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 03:56:21 -0000 Which media do you intend to backup to? If I were in your place, I would just tar the /home and the /etc and put it on a USB drive or on a CDR/DVDR if you have a burner. However, Are you sure that the drive is fixed firmly into the drive bay and you are seating the laptop on a sturdy base? Regards S. On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 22:58:51 +0100, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > > Hi all, > > Help! My laptop drive seems to be dying, and while I did keep backups, the > last one was a bit old. > > When I boot up, the drive makes clanking sounds I've never heard before, and > never finishes the load. I'm going to make a rescue disk, but does anyone > have a strategy for how I could handle the delicate job of getting my > updated data off the drive without making matters worse? So far, I figure I > will boot the rescue disk and try to mount the filesystems. > > jm > -- > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- Subhro Sankha Kar School of Information Technology Block AQ-13/1 Sector V ZIP 700091 India