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 1Mpqaf-0000X2-PD for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 21:38:33 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B3A61E085B; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 21:38:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yw0-f181.google.com (mail-yw0-f181.google.com [209.85.211.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92BEDE085B for ; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 21:38:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywh11 with SMTP id 11so4092177ywh.9 for ; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:38:32 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=I4wokSJmXzxTRbNFYb8cwu6ggAKpS0Y3DpfQ4DtkhN0=; b=YrPB0BgMb7BWSvOUjCPlRjxcaE6IL8slmlPEtbo2wiobWVS1URsnxV2yVwMgrv880y 99OUk0AZwztBi3q39R+DKKK/US25QRG4vTmjgG+Gsl2n3LD5kjYu83lTOHk//Jg5+5lT xyXEJauIzZLElIF23SqeJ7pt1lzopC4qH74nQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; b=IFBWvx7oni+uaH/B44J3WRisM6vwfvRnKXPT8groI7tsdCI4wGlDygQQx0hUzEBaSv GvP2lZPBdw/ZQD0DXHZleZUfY6ORrJya9hzPMHBaRUY4LhQgFlgS2KkmFjnPuaYmOXvs 0C1nZjKehyyzNIEfLJD7JrF0OKBAjK7iiSnQA= 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 Received: by 10.150.236.17 with SMTP id j17mr403475ybh.128.1253569111512; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:38:31 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20090921092143.4645cb33@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> References: <5bdc1c8b0909191521j72388919w35e54b577b55ae60@mail.gmail.com> <5bdc1c8b0909191640x7f04baddgc5d42622a62808a5@mail.gmail.com> <200909200148.16167.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> <5bdc1c8b0909191701o26dad04el7cef899ef705f577@mail.gmail.com> <5bdc1c8b0909201141o69747b52h7438f648bb8b21b7@mail.gmail.com> <20090921092143.4645cb33@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:38:31 -0700 Message-ID: <5bdc1c8b0909211438k5613465bv8fe81266f1953bb8@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USB drive dead? (Commands to check?) From: Mark Knecht To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: bc5b78f9-b1d6-4fc0-8e7c-be4ebcd6dbf5 X-Archives-Hash: eed4b7824582e5b7b4a95dbcd5e89881 On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 1:21 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > 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. > > > -- > Neil Bothwick I haven't tried it yet. I don't like installing extra softwrae on the Myth backend so I disconnected the drive, used this old 1394 drive as a replacement and now have the old drive back here in my office. I figure I'll install Photorec et all next weekend on my AMD64 box and see what it can find. Cheers, Mark