William Case writes:
Hi; I have a hard disk that seems broken but I am trying to save -- or atleast save the data on it.The broken hard disk is a dual boot SCSI disk that worked. * BIOS says that the disk is present and accounted for i.e. right name and size even after swapping in and out other harddisks. * Using Fedora rescue disk, parted /dev/sda says can't read sda. * Using Fedora rescue disk, fdisk /dev/sda says can't read sda. * Using Fedora rescue disk, chroot /mnt/sysimage can't mount sysimage. * fdisk /mbr says can't fix mbr. ( I am not sure whether this message means that nothing is wrong with the mbr or that it is beyond repair ) I would like to do any of the following: * get the hard disk working again, or, * view the data on the disk, and/or, * rescue the data on the disk. What should I try next?
Look what happens in /var/log/messages when fdisk /dev/sda says that it can't read sda.
Also, verify that this disk is, indeed, sda. Look at dmesg to see what disks the kernel saw when it booted.
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