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.