--- Vinayak Hegde vinayakh@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 21:04:40 +0530 (IST), Philip Tellis philip.tellis@gmx.net wrote:
Sometime Today, Trevor Warren assembled some
asciibets to say:
Luckily no HBA or SCSI controller. Its IDE.
dmesg screams io error.
And fdisk -l doesn't work but throws up io
errors.
sorry trevor, should have given this solution
first.
put your hard disk into the freezer (T<0�C) for 24
hours. When you take
it out it should work for at least 24 hours. That
should give you
enough time to copy the data off it.
Philip
PS: I'm not kidding. I've done this twice before.
Yeah it works I have tried that as well :) Just be sure that you cover the HDD well before you put it in the freezer :)
The release notes of e2fsprogs say that ext3 fs is supported for quite a few operations including replaying journal in user mode and identifing/reading superblocks on disk. but YMMV.
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