Hi, I have a notebook on which the hard disk has died - it won't boot and makes funny noises. I am hoping to copy as much data of the dead disk as possible. I have successfully used the SuSE linux installation DVD - booting the rescue system then mounting the dead disk and an external USB disk and copying valuable data across - in a similar situation in the past. But this time it hangs on the point of loading the ata_piix module. Could I prevent this module from loading? Is there some other trick I can try? I accept that the disk may be so dead as to not be possible to rescue any data. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, David. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
