Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:22:01 -0400 From: Dimitri Yioulos <dyioulos@firstbhph.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: help for a wounded disk drive... Message-ID: <200803211722.02601.dyioulos@firstbhph.com> In-Reply-To: <20080321173950.GF26011@dell1> References: <20080321173950.GF26011@dell1>
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On Friday 21 March 2008 1:39 pm, William Bulley wrote: > I damaged a Seagate 80 GB EIDE drive that was attached to a FreeBSD 5.4 > system (as ufs) some time ago, and I would like to recover the data on > this drive - if that is possible. All positive suggestions are welcome. > > The drive is mechanically and electrically good. I just can't mount it > and use it under FreeBSD. It was a dual boot drive with a DOS partition > on the first partition and FreeBSD 5.4 on partition two. I did the normal > sysinstall for FreeBSD 5.5 as I had done many times before. Unfortunately, > I had the older, FreeBSD 5.4 drive cabled up (and powered up) on the second > IDE channel (using cable select) of an i386 motherboard while I did the 5.5 > install on a new, blank drive on the first IDE channel. > > I told sysinstall to add the standard FreeBSD bootloader on the new drive. > I don't recall if I allowed for a DOS partition or just used the entire > disk. The FreeBSD 5.4 disk on the second IDE channel also had the standard > FreeBSD bootloader from my earlier sysinstall of 5.4 on that disk. > > When I completed the install, I figured I could just mount the second > (older) drive manually. When I tried to do this, things went from bad to > worse, and the new system could never recognize the drive. I believe the > installation process attempted to (or succeeded in) putting (an > unnecessary) bootloader on the older drive. Had it not been connected, it > would probably be okay today. I learned an important lesson at that time... > > I don't know what steps to take to recover this drive so I can mount it in > a read-only mode. I just want to recover the files on this drive. It is > very small by today's standards, so I will likely not use the drive in > production. > > I am comfortable running any required shell commands (as root), but I don't > want to damage the disk drive any further. I hope I don't have to resort > to using dd(1) on the raw device! Thanks in advance for any pointers. > > Regards, > > web... > > -- > William Bulley Email: web@umich.edu > If it's just a matter of grabbing data off this drive, would a live rescue CD such as Reci=overy Is Possible be of help to you? Dimitri -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
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