Re: IBM HDD Problem

Previously Robert J. Stevens <atreborz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Arno Wagner wrote:

>> Previously Robert J. Stevens <atreborz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > I have a IBM Travelstar that quit. Drive clicks when I try to access it.
>> > I was able to see it once on the Laptop when I used HDDREG 1.41. It showed
>> that the
>> > first block was bad and sat there for awhile. I should have tried to start
>> at 1M but
>> > didnt. Is there a program out there that will rewrite the MBR [track zero]
>>
>> > without trying to read first. Other Prgrams I have sych as MBRWORK says
>> read
>> > failed. I am trying to look at the drive with KNOPPIX right now.
>> > TIA
>> > Bob in Wisconsin
>>
>> Sounds very much like physical damage. If the data on it is important
>> enough to warrant using a data recovery service, stop messing around
>> with it now.
>>
>> If not, I doubt rewriting the MBR will help much. I would rather
>> advise you to mount it in a PC with an additional disk and to try
>> to copy it sector-by-sector to a file with dd_rescue

> Arno;
> I am not really familier with Knoppix. How does one access "dd_rescue"?
> TIA
> Bob

Sorry. It is a commandline tool. Go to a terminal with root access
(Koppix: crtl-alt-F1 .... ctrl-alt-F4) and start off with

dd_rescue -h

It also has a short website at

http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/ddrescue/

Arno
.

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