Re: [gentoo-user] Does this drive need a funeral?

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 11:58 AM, Dale<rdalek1967@gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> For the first time in my life, I think I have a drive failing on me.  Here
>> is the info:
>>
> <SNIP>
>> What you folks think?  Can I fix it somehow?  I got a good shovel handy just
>> in case.
>>
>> Dale
> Start doing backups before you write even 1 more email! ;;-)
>
> - Mark
>
>


Well, it was in my brothers winders rig.  Winders couldn't do anything 
but puke on the keyboard so I brought it down here and put it in my old 
Linux rig.  I mounted it ro and got the data off it FIRST THING.  There 
was a boatload of pictures from their camera.  Anyway, the data seems to 
be safe tho a few may have gotten messed up.  I got to test that in a bit.

Is this terminal or can something be done to correct this?  I did run 
the dd command before I ran the selftest.  I don't think it matters but 
thought it wouldn't hurt either.  If it is terminal, I'll get my 
screwdriver out and see what these drives look like on the inside.  The 
last one I looked into was a old 14" thing many years ago.  Platters 
were about the size of 33 rpm records. lol  Dang I'm old.  O_O

Dale

:-)  :-)