[ubuntu-uk] Hard drive- Bad sectors

[javadayaz]

its a hard drive attached to the netbook. Funnily enough this is his third
HD...and is a western digital HD as well.



On 16 April 2010 12:20, John Stevenson <john at jr0cket.com> wrote:

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> On 16 April 2010 11:44, Adam Bagnall <bagnaj97 at googlemail.com> wrote:
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>> On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 11:23 AM, javadayaz <javadayaz at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> i dont think he has another machine. He is using ubuntu one on his
>>> netbook....
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>>> but i will forward this option to him as well.
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>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> s/
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>> As a true last resort you can try putting the drive in a sealed bag (to
>> prevent condensation) and then in the freezer for a few hours. A quick
>> google shows there are many reports of this working, although I've never
>> tried it and hope I never have to...
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>> Regards,
>>     Adam.
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> If its a netbook then its probably easier to put the whole machine in the
> fridge.  I am dubious about putting something in the freeze though.
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> It was interesting that all my drive failures have happed during the summer
> months, so temperature does play a part.
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> If you do get it to boot, then have somewhere to back up on hand as you
> will need get everything copied as quickly as possible before the drive
> warms up and starts failing again.
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> Good luck
>
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> John Stevenson
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