Trio3b Posted November 4, 2009 Report Share Posted November 4, 2009 (edited) running mdv 2008.1 40gb backup drive (hdb) has gone bad. Tried the freezer trick, no luck. hdb (with partitions hdb1 and hdb3) is now out of the PC and in another machine running pclos 2007 and trying to recover using ddrescue. Have set up a larger partition (hda7) specifically to contain files on the unreadeable hdb1 partition. Once ddrescue finishes, hda7 won't mount and reads similar errors as hdb1 : either bad permissions or bad superblock, fs, etc. Anyone experienced with ddrescue? Thanks Edited November 4, 2009 by Trio3b Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted November 4, 2009 Report Share Posted November 4, 2009 Try testdisk. If that fails, you're probably too late. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trio3b Posted November 7, 2009 Author Report Share Posted November 7, 2009 As mentioned, hdb used for backup went bad and I had to comment out hdb partitions in fstab in order to boot mdv2008.1 (on hda) . Now having trouble mounting flashdrives so poked into fstab and guess what? hdb1 and hdb5 partitions are listed in fstab again! What's going on? hdb is out and in a different PC!! Any ideas? (not about the flashdrive, but about the hdb entry. UUID's are the same as the original hdb partitions). Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tux99 Posted November 7, 2009 Report Share Posted November 7, 2009 Maybe it had been detected and re-added before you disconnected and you just didn't notice it earlier? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trio3b Posted November 7, 2009 Author Report Share Posted November 7, 2009 That's as good an explanation as anything. Will comment out again and see what happens. thnx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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