Data Recovery

August 17, 2005 Posted by mitch | linux, technology | 0 Comments

Recovery of data off my old hard drive (120GB SATA) didn't go as well as I would have hoped. I was able to recover a whole 1.4MB of the 107GB partion... yeah... good eh?

After trying for a couple days doing a "xfs_repair" and not finding out untill after I wasted two days trying, that xfs_repair dies as soon as it gets an IO error. The drive would kick one of those out every couple seconds when you were trying to access it. So, I waited two days for nothing... So, I had done a bit more reading and found that I should copy off the partion and then I will be able to perform a xfs_repair on the file that was coppied off. I used both dd if=/dev/sdb6 conv=noerrr of=PARTITION, and ddrescue /dev/sdb6 PARTITION and both resulted in the same 1.4MB file after all was said and done. So, it hasn't been a very good week. I lost everything... yet again.

On the bright side of things, I have a DVD burner on the way, and it will be here by friday :)