[ubuntu-uk] Hard drive- Bad sectors

[javadayaz]

i dont think he has another machine. He is using ubuntu one on his
netbook....

but i will forward this option to him as well.

On 16 April 2010 11:21, Simon Greenwood <sfgreenwood at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On 16 April 2010 11:08, javadayaz <javadayaz at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> My brother has just had his hard drive fail. Testdisk is saying "All bad
>> sectors".  Is there anything that can be done to rescue the data?
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> If he (or you) have another machine, it could be removed and put in that
> either directly or with a USB hard drive adapter to see if it will mount on
> another machine - there's always the possibility that the drive controller
> has failed rather than the drive. If that works, you could make an image of
> the disk using dd or other disk imaging tools.
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