From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 21 13:36:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hyperhost.net (ether.lightrealm.com [207.159.132.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B02481594B for ; Wed, 21 Apr 1999 13:35:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from patseal@hyperhost.net) Received: from p23.a8.du.radix.net (p23.a8.du.radix.net [207.192.132.151]) by hyperhost.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA15608; Wed, 21 Apr 1999 16:33:05 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 16:32:55 -0400 (EDT) From: Patrick Seal To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Subject: Re: Hard drive failure In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I deleted doug's reply to this, but he said there was almost no hope to recover the data myself. For the heck of it I just re-fdisk'd the disk and then mounted wd0s1 on /mnt everything seems to be there. (at least the root slice) but everything under /usr and /var only show the immediate directory structure. I guess this is because I mounted the compatibility slice?? How can I get the stuff under /usr? I would just re-label the drive, but will that destroy my data? I also can't remember exactly how many MB are in each slice, so that would be a problem too. If anyone knows how I can get this stuff it would be *very* appreciated. If not, I only lost a weeks worth of code :( Thanks! ------------------------------------ _____________________________________ Patrick Seal |"Microsoft isn't evil, they just make | really crappy operating systems." Hyperhost - http://www.hyperhost.net| -Linus Torvalds hosting and Design http://www.freebsd.org - http://www.linux.org On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, Patrick Seal wrote: > I just purchased a nice Maxtor IDE drive and moved everything from my old > SCSI (A Micropolis, which I was informed had a bug in the firmware that > was giving me random system crashes). New drive would sorta make a sound > like it was spinning down, then immediately spin back up, every day or so. > Yesterday it happened about 10 times in an hour and hasn't happened since. > > Today I was spring cleanning the insides my computer and booted back up, > and now the drive seems totally blank. I booted with my Old SCSI and it > shows no partitions with fdisk! What can I do to resurrect the data! > > Thanks, > > ------------------------------------ _____________________________________ > Patrick Seal |"Microsoft isn't evil, they just make > | really crappy operating systems." > Hyperhost - http://www.hyperhost.net| -Linus Torvalds > hosting and Design > > http://www.freebsd.org - http://www.linux.org > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message