[clue-tech] Failing drive [was Re: virtualization]

[Maxwell Spangler]

On Thu, 2010-07-29 at 19:30 -0600, Shawn Perry wrote:
> This looks like a job for a new thread!
> 
> That said, I usually mount read only, then use rsync -avPihhH --stats
> --numeric-ids {source} {target} a couple times, and then usually
> follow it up with the addition of --checksum while booted off of
> another drive/stick.  Patience recommended.
> 
> On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 6:52 PM, Maxwell Spangler
> <maxlists at maxwellspangler.com> wrote:
> > Hey,
> >
> > I have a failed/failing SATA disk over here.  Can you recommend any
> > tools I can run on it to test it in depth and or try to recover data?

Whoops!  That was supposed to be a private message to Master Shawn
because I know he's got hard drive kung fu over there.

I'm going to run SeaTools on it now just to confirm it's got problems.
Then I'm going to try to get to the data, but only for a little bit.

I just wish I could do a more exploring on the drive to figure out what
the problem is.  This is less than 90 days old and just went kaput from
either a little bump or a bad power connection.. 
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