Guest Phil B Posted August 19, 2005 Report Share Posted August 19, 2005 My backup hard drive has packed up, it's connected through an IDE card. Windows doesn't start at all if the crashed drive is connected. I can start Mandriva LE although it takes a while, when trying to initialise the stuffed drive it hangs for a while, then reports a bad superblock in hdg1. I can see the drive in /mnt. It comes up as win c & win d, but shows no files. It's partitioned in NTFS & FAT32. I have a hard drive connector (Trios) installed so I can run different os's on separate drives, that way if I want to move anything around it can go to the backup drive. What I want to know is, is there a linux program that can access damaged hard drives? I want to get the info off it to another drive. Thanks Phil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AussieJohn Posted August 19, 2005 Report Share Posted August 19, 2005 You could try a LIVE-CD but considering that you already have access to the drive via a working Mandriva or Linux system, I think your chances are slim. If the suspect drive is not rotating then you are out of luck. Only a specialty data recovery workshop has a possible chance. Bad luck mate. John. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted August 19, 2005 Report Share Posted August 19, 2005 I searched on the web and i haven't found any workng solution yet. Will continue the search tomorrow. (I know that there are e.g. some floppy tools for recovering partition-data but I don't remember their names...) oh.. I forgot: welcome aboard. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted August 20, 2005 Report Share Posted August 20, 2005 HDD regenerator is the most reliable tool I know. It treats the disk as a physical entity, and does not care about partitions and filesystems. It would help if before trying to mount the disk you wrapped it tightly in a plastic bag and put it on the deep freeze for 70-80 minutes (warning: this is NOT a bad joke- it works for many, many cases of harddisk failures!). If you hurry putting it back after freezing, it will be usable for some time (until it gets warm again) and a fair amount of data could be recovered. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted August 21, 2005 Report Share Posted August 21, 2005 I found only commercial applications like these ones that also have demo variants available (dunno how useful these demos are, though) http://www.stellarinfo.com/ http://www.recoveryourdata.com/ http://www.unistal.com/quick_recovery_LINUX.html and here a full list of programs http://dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Disk_Ma...ing_and_Repair/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Phil B Posted August 23, 2005 Report Share Posted August 23, 2005 Thanks for the replies, I left Mandriva trying to access the failed drive for a fair while, eventually it accessed the Fat32 partition, so I managed to get everything off there. I left it going again trying to access the NTFS partition with no joy. I have noticed the ide scan at bootup sometimes doesn't see the drive at all & other times it scans for a minute or so & reports the 2 drives conncted to it. 1 of them being brand new & not setup yet. I got a copy of spinrite, that didn't do anything. Maybe it's the hard drive being temperamental at scan time. I'll try Arctics links first & if they don't do anything I'll try Scarecrows idea & freeze it. I'll post back with how my luck went soon Thanks Phil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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