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 4.62) (envelope-from <gentoo-user+bounces-64588-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@gentoo.org>) id 1HtDtO-0005GI-Lc for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 30 May 2007 02:26:31 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l4U2Ne3j030774; Wed, 30 May 2007 02:23:40 GMT Received: from vms040pub.verizon.net (vms040pub.verizon.net [206.46.252.40]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l4U2D3r6015417 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Wed, 30 May 2007 02:13:03 GMT Received: from [192.168.0.11] ([72.71.198.172]) by vms040.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-6.01 (built Apr 3 2006)) with ESMTPA id <0JIU00EFV0THW6K1@vms040.mailsrvcs.net> for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 29 May 2007 21:12:53 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 22:12:53 -0400 From: sean <tech.junk@verizon.net> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to mount a bad disk In-reply-to: <200705281357.16930.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Message-id: <465CDDA5.70807@verizon.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-user+help@gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+unsubscribe@gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+subscribe@gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-user.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit References: <46598718.8030905@verizon.net> <1180273010.17043.2.camel@blackwidow.nbk> <200705281357.16930.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070422) X-Archives-Salt: 59d77a21-cbb7-4bf9-be97-accffeb13d38 X-Archives-Hash: 62431562615324ceb9c09c6b3badc76e Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Sunday 27 May 2007, Albert Hopkins wrote: >> On Sun, 2007-05-27 at 09:26 -0400, sean wrote: >>> I have a Windows XP driver here that belongs to a friend that just >>> crashed. >>> >>> I am trying to figure out if there is some way I can force the >>> drive to >>> mount on my system so that I can get some data off it for her. >>> >>> Not having much luck, would anyone have any tips as to how I might >>> be able to make this happen? >> If the drive experienced a head crash, then there is pretty much >> nothing you can do. > > > Wrong. > > If the drive suffered a head crash, you would be amazed what data > recovery experts can do. They are very expensive, if I recall correctly? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list