From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Mpe9g-0000in-Ms for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 08:21:52 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id ABEAAE079A; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 08:21:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67FEEE079A for ; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 08:21:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from krikkit.digimed.co.uk (krikkit.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B5F2F26087E for ; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 09:21:49 +0100 (BST) Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 09:21:43 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USB drive dead? (Commands to check?) Message-ID: <20090921092143.4645cb33@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <5bdc1c8b0909201141o69747b52h7438f648bb8b21b7@mail.gmail.com> References: <5bdc1c8b0909191521j72388919w35e54b577b55ae60@mail.gmail.com> <5bdc1c8b0909191640x7f04baddgc5d42622a62808a5@mail.gmail.com> <200909200148.16167.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> <5bdc1c8b0909191701o26dad04el7cef899ef705f577@mail.gmail.com> <5bdc1c8b0909201141o69747b52h7438f648bb8b21b7@mail.gmail.com> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.2cvs34 (GTK+ 2.16.6; i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/V/++sN1oylEp8TbnqUJd0oL"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: aa09df1b-b79e-4ab5-9536-2e60cf35b963 X-Archives-Hash: 76060861057f930f3fb13d79fe66a3d5 --Sig_/V/++sN1oylEp8TbnqUJd0oL Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 11:41:09 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > Turns out none of the backup or Myth files were savable in any > practical manner of speaking. Myth could play them, or at least start > playing them - I don't know if it could get to the end of any of them, > but if I tried to copy them off to another drive the machine just > started hanging with lots of dmesg drive errors. None of the previous > windows backups were savable. I've taken new windows backups starting > last night. Did you try photorec as previously suggested? When a drive starts behaving like this, retrieving the data should be the first thing you try. Repairing the filesystem should be the last because you run the risk of causing further damage. Photorec can retrieve files that are inaccessible through the filesystem. --=20 Neil Bothwick WinErr 013: Unexpected error - Huh ? --Sig_/V/++sN1oylEp8TbnqUJd0oL Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.13 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkq3N50ACgkQum4al0N1GQMBoACfRr5UFXKsVeF9uBlIE9gCNaLv dpkAnRZajTnlfz/Nj+MXoQtfn4HgSfoA =sUIT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/V/++sN1oylEp8TbnqUJd0oL--