From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 29 18:16:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from WEBBSD1.turnaround.com.au (webbsd1.turnaround.com.au [203.39.138.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC822150AA for ; Tue, 29 Jun 1999 18:16:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from A_Johns@TurnAround.com.au) Received: from tasajohns (dhcp64.turnaround.com.au [192.168.1.64]) by WEBBSD1.turnaround.com.au (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id LAA12692; Wed, 30 Jun 1999 11:32:13 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from A_Johns@TurnAround.com.au) From: "Andrew Johns" To: "Nataraj Dasgupta" , , Cc: Subject: RE: get data from crashed harddisk????? Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 11:13:53 +1000 Message-ID: <001701bec295$d1aa57f0$4001a8c0@tasajohns.turnaround.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 In-Reply-To: <19990630005746.36820.qmail@hotmail.com> Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG We seem to be going in circles....see below. > -----Original Message----- > From: Nataraj Dasgupta [mailto:xbsd@hotmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, 30 June 1999 10:58 > To: A_Johns@TurnAround.com.au; xbsd@hotmail.com; dburr@pobox.com; > dick@dgriffin.org > Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: RE: get data from crashed harddisk????? > > > > > Look, it did work for me effectively. If getting the s/w for I have no doubt that it worked for you because you were able to 'mount' the drive (in M$ terminology). The problem with crashed unix drives is that you _cannot_ mount them in the first place. > Windows proves > to be a problem, perhaps (yes, PERHAPS) , you could make the hdd a > secondary ide on an unix box itself. Indeed, it will involve > some tinkering > with the config files, but if you could just get it to mount, We know what you're trying to say, but mounting it _IS_ the problem ->if the drive could have been mounted, then this discussion would never have eventuated... > you would be > able to retrieve the data. > Regards To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message