From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 20 11:36:20 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 CC66316A4CE for ; Mon, 20 Sep 2004 11:36:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: from yearning.mcc.ac.uk (yearning.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.203.23]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99CD343D54 for ; Mon, 20 Sep 2004 11:36:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by yearning.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.12) id 1C9MSx-000L0g-00; Mon, 20 Sep 2004 12:36:19 +0100 Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) i8KBaJYu032306; Mon, 20 Sep 2004 12:36:19 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: (from jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.12.10/8.12.6/Submit) id i8KBaJ03032305; Mon, 20 Sep 2004 12:36:19 +0100 (BST) Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 12:36:19 +0100 From: Jonathon McKitrick To: Subhro Message-ID: <20040920113618.GB32147@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> References: <20040919215851.GA23394@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i 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 List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 11:36:21 -0000 On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 09:26:18AM +0530, Subhro wrote: : 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? I took the drive out of the bay and reinserted it. It was working fine until a few days ago. I started hearing the clanking, then yesteday, it never finished the startup process. My last backup was to my server, then to CDR. jm -- My other computer is your Windows box.