[COLUG] Is the drive dead or not?

[Dave Maxwell]

On Thu December 7 2006 9:36 pm, Kent Broestl wrote:

> fdisk -lu /dev/hdf1 looks okay:
> Disk /dev/hdf: 41.1 GB, 41110142976 bytes
> 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 79656 cylinders, total 80293248 sectors
> Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hdf1 63 80293247 40146592+ 83 Linux
>
> So the partition table isn't hosed.
>
> But I am definitely at a loss...
>

Do you have something big enough to that you could get an image of the drive?

ddrescue may be your friend here.  If you can get an image, then you have more 
options for at least recovering some data anyway.

Dave

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