From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1ESxEb-0005PQ-SZ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 21 Oct 2005 13:47:02 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j9LDhuHg017009; Fri, 21 Oct 2005 13:43:56 GMT Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j9LDdoAi004869 for ; Fri, 21 Oct 2005 13:39:50 GMT Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 21 Oct 2005 13:42:34 -0000 Received: from p54939719.dip0.t-ipconnect.de (EHLO huxley.mblan) [84.147.151.25] by mail.gmx.net (mp011) with SMTP; 21 Oct 2005 15:42:34 +0200 X-Authenticated: #428074 Received: by huxley.mblan (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 0DD79AFCFB; Fri, 21 Oct 2005 15:42:00 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 15:42:00 +0200 From: Matthias Bethke To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] low-level formatting a harddrive Message-ID: <20051021134200.GA9508@huxley> References: <200510182206.56775.elinar@ihug.co.nz> <20051019164458.25895.qmail@web31706.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="/04w6evG8XlLl3ft" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051019164458.25895.qmail@web31706.mail.mud.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-Archives-Salt: 2b757930-1e77-4b7d-b685-2a8a258fd1fb X-Archives-Hash: 80b444d1cfa549e54ea7721a5c20d0d1 --/04w6evG8XlLl3ft Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi maxim, on Wednesday, 2005-10-19 at 09:44:58, you wrote: > it started a little flakey but soon progressed to all > out dandruff! Lowlevelling seems the way to go indeed, if there's anything that can be done. Just back up the drive with dd if=3D/dev/hdX conv=3Dnoerror bs=3D4096 | gzip > /some/where/bak.gz lowlevel format it, and dump the whole image back. I guess that's the best cance you have to save as much as possible, from what you said it should be pretty much verything, mabe except for the MBR and some Windoze stuff. regards Matthias --=20 I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: 90CF8389 Fingerprint: 8E1F 1081 A466 2946 B98A B9E2 099F 3B91 --/04w6evG8XlLl3ft Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBQ1jwKK/BjwuQz4OJAQIbXggAmikfVqg/wB+5umoU4abARLidhmuwMBAg p5PBNoa6pa3nOKs0mKT6Zb9EYhymswM3164D9mNh4Cl3zhmuqQN2g1UZ+rwTO2cr MB52JbMNBMAmGvGFogKB7jiqGNJTfeDk8cibYOW8tunNLJ4UiZzNDmKxtblnHGxM mymZT/IFuVKDjhhStN99clk66J//5OVMaccW1tbEtMe86BMFC04kSqE3LCBsVEWB bASzO8ADqCLBsiwx5MGgJGwE8zQYLxbh/6nThgnaJTefLCrvWqXt3/J+6IQ3uePe R+YFFCZKcacGYfuz/t7xG/D9An73bDQ0DU/w3oSKB6a5TSKwY0osCA== =6HMk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --/04w6evG8XlLl3ft-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list