[Novalug] disk :(

[greg pryzby]

so the data is there (rlinux under windows shows $Inodexxxxx) but  
there are 505,258 files! on the system. So reconstruction isn't going  
to be easy.

ideas?

he disk is ok, but I can't seem to figure out what to do except look  
at each file and rename by hand.


On Jun 18, 2008, at 11:28 AM, Daniel Copeland wrote:

> Yeah, I've used that technique before.  Just be aware of the extreme  
> amount of condensation that build up after you take the drive back  
> into room temperature.
>
> On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 10:29 AM, David A. Cafaro <dac at cafaro.net>  
> wrote:
> If you are having a drive seek error problem, and the tell tale
> clicking noise, you may be able to recover your data without swapping
> controllers.
>
> (don't laugh, this does work sometime, I've used the technique a
> couple of times with success)
>
> Stick the drive in a zipploc freezer bag, with as little air in the
> bag as possible.  Stick it in the freezer.
>
> Wait 4 hours at least (over night better).
>
> Take it out and quickly attached it to your computer (an external
> USB2.0 to SATA/PATA adapter works best)
>
> If it worked, and spins up, mount partition and start copying like  
> mad.
>
> If the clicking returns before you finish, repeat above until all data
> is copied.
>
> This can sometimes work when you have the clicking issue, the freezing
> can change physical properties of the metal inside the drive long
> enough for it to start working again.  It won't work in every case
> though, but so far I've had a very good record with this technique.
>
> Cheers,
> David
>
>
> On Jun 18, 2008, at 8:43 AM, Ken Kauffman wrote:
>
> > Do you hear any unusual clicking noises?  For some inexplicable
> > reason, I have had two hard drives fail in the last 2 weeks.  One
> > was a friends and one was at work.  By using smartutils and another
> > machine, I could determine that both are hardware failures.   Both
> > revealed a code 07h which is a seek failure.  So -- the data is
> > recoverable in my case, but only if I put the physical disks
> > themselves into another drive with a difference embedded controller
> > and heads.
> >
> > Ken
> >
> > On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 8:38 AM, Palmer <cliff at palmercs.com> wrote:
> > Greg, this is going to sound like voodoo, but this has rescued more
> > problem disks than any other technique I have used.  The problem may
> > be
> > the controller/HBA.  If it's not built in to the MB, take it out and
> > use a
> > _very_ clean pencil eraser to clean the contacts for the MB slot.
> >
> > Have you tried reading the disk in another system?
> >
> > HTH
> > Cliff
> >
> > > Yesterday I woke to a system that wouldn't boot (no grub). So I
> > booted
> > > from a rescue CD/DVD and started to recover the disk (fsck.ext3 - 
> y /
> > > dev/sda6). There was an error about inode not a directory and it
> > went
> > > on and on and on (over 20 hours) and not finished and no more disk
> > > activity.
> > >
> > > Any useful suggestions?
> > >
> > > --
> > > greg pryzby
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