Sorry for the late tune-in,
I also have a failed drive. It was fine and working perfectly in my broken laptop till I removed it, put it in a 2.5" enclosure and carried it around for a few days. The reason I did this was to bring it home to back it up. However, when I went about this it all went Pear shaped. I can (most of the time) get the machine(s) to recognise and read the drive partitions and directory structure. However, when I try to copy over the data, it only seemed to get the directory (and subdirectory) names but without any files inside. It'll mostly stall and won't re-attempt the same copy unless I select a different set of directories first (I presume this is due to moving the heads by selecting a different area of the drive).
I've tried DD on a couple of the partitions but the resulting backup files are smaller than the partitions themselves suggesting it wasn't a success. I though a bit copy would be more successful since the heads moving steadily rather than bobbing about different locations.
I'm now going to try a DD on the whole drive rather than each partition.
I'm not keen on freezing.
Anyone any comments on this?
Cheers,
Sonic
Maintained by the ILUG website team. The aim of Linux.ie is to
support and help commercial and private users of Linux in Ireland. You can
display ILUG news in your own webpages, read backend
information to find out how. Networking services kindly provided by HEAnet, server kindly donated by
Dell. Linux is a trademark of Linus Torvalds,
used with permission. No penguins were harmed in the production or maintenance
of this highly praised website. Looking for the
Indian Linux Users' Group? Try here. If you've read all this and aren't a lawyer: you should be!
