Big disk/filesystem issues...

[Dennis Ruzeski]

This was a great idea, but alas.. I yanked the drive and put it on an ide bus and my data is still in limbo.. Anyone have any other ideas?

--Dennis

P.S. Hmm.. Maybe advanced data recovery techniques would be a good subject for Sunday's meeting.  :-)




-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Andruczyk [mailto:djandruczyk at yahoo.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 10:42 PM
To: nflug at nflug.org
Subject: Re: Big disk/filesystem issues...
Importance: Low



--- Dennis Ruzeski <dennisr at corp.kanoodle.com> wrote:

> I've got a 160G external usb hard drive. It's got my life on it so I'd really
> love to get the data back. 
> 
> I try to mount it and I can't get it to mount. An fsck gives the following:
> e2fsck: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read while
> checking ext3 journal for /dev/sdb1
> 
> It is an ext3 filesystem. I can use qtparted to view the partition, but I
> can't figure out how to repair it.
> (I have tried to replace the superblock)
> 
> testdisk shows a problem, but it doesn't seem to write the fix to the disk on
> exit.
> 
> Anyone have any experience with this? I'd like to do it without using TCT- I
> don't have enough disk space handy..
> 

just to make sure it isnt a problem with USB, pull the drive out of the case
and plug it into a native IDE port and try and mount/e2fsck it there.   



=====
Dave J. Andruczyk


		
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