Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 22:40:03 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Tim Judd <tajudd@gmail.com> Cc: Kelly Martin <kellymartin@gmail.com>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: hard disk failure - now what? Message-ID: <20090824224003.0b5ac2df.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <ade45ae90908241313y495832edkd87004485602a42e@mail.gmail.com> References: <1338880b0908241129p75b6845cg26d21804e118364@mail.gmail.com> <ade45ae90908241313y495832edkd87004485602a42e@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:13:22 -0600, Tim Judd <tajudd@gmail.com> wrote: > If I were you, get a copy of spinrite (from grc.com) and always keep > it handy. It can be risky on a drive already failing. Here's what > I'd do.... > > Buy spinrite, no matter what. Is it really such a good tool? From my own problems, I researched that common recovery tools are "R-Studio" and "UFS Explorer". Both do not natively run on BSD, but the first one offers a bootable CD. Without buying, you can run the diagnostics mode fullwise. For recovery, you need to buy the program. The "Spinrite" web page reads as follows: The industry's #1 hard drive data recovery software is NOW COMPATIBLE with NTFS, FAT, Linux, and ALL OTHER file systems! What? Linux and other file systems? Is this just marketing, in order to look good to the not very educated ones? Or do they not know what they're talking about? In fact, I will keep an eye on this program. Maybe it can help me get my data back (inode defect of $HOME entry). I'm reading their web page some more right now. > slave the bad drive, read-only mount.. even if the FS is dirty, > read-only.. no fsck. You can at least do one fsck run without any modification options, like a "read only file system check". This of course can - like any read operation on the disk - be risky if the disk is fast degrading, simply by using it. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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