On Tuesday 19 Oct 2004 1:17 pm, Philip Tellis wrote:
Sometime Today, sherlock@vsnl.com assembled some asciibets to say:
Are you sure about this one??
didn't you read my last line. I am sure. very sure. what do you think could go wrong? Oh yeah, forgot to mention. Use a freezer bag. You've
can Second this... Seen it myself... .. classify the idea under "UnBelievable But True" ;-)
& trevour,, once u get the HDD work w/o too much i/o errs.. use the fsck options (-b , do a man fsck.ext3 to see more) once u get a valid backup superblock... ... cross ur fingers! works in all cases of course unless ur sectors are corrupt, then u will not get the data for that sector, but should be recoverable for the others...
the real trick here is to be patient b/c if u havent got data on the superblock backups.... these numbers seem relatively common..
17, 32768, 65539, 98304, 131072, 163840, 196608, 229376, 262144 ..
(for the mathematicaly inclined u can notice there is a fairly common progression.. )
Erle Pereira