usb hard drives and file recover

[Tom Sparks]

From: Brian McKee <brian.mckee at gmail.com>
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 10:32 AM, Tom Sparks <tom_a_sparks at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
>>
>> i have a usb hard drive i have formated it to ext3
>> ever once in a while my hard drive fails to mount with the >>message bus timed out error
>> believing it needs to have a fsck check, i start a fsck >>check on the drive, after 24 hours, and no updates on screen.
>> i unplug the drive and run fsck on my desktop
>> I get error after error on the desktop
>> so what am i doing wrong?

>Well - for starters you aren't using plain text email to the mailing list :-)
yahoo again :(
>Secondly, you didn't provide us with those errors.

>When you say you ran it on your desktop - do you mean you used >fsck on
>a mounted disk - e.g. it was checking itself so to speak?  >That's not
>a good idea.  If want to run fsck on your desktop, boot from >the live
>cd and run it from there.  If that was what you did, then >please show
>us what those errors were.
I demount the drive
the error reads along the lines of "failed to read next inode XXXX (short read)" and "force rewrite"


>As to your USB disk - the first step is to pull it out of the >USB
>enclosure and try it hooking it up directly, or at least in a
>different enclosure - preferably on a different machine.
>I've had as many issues with USB enclosures going bad as I >have had
>with the disks inside them having errors.  You need to isolate >the
>problem.
i cant its one of these WD pocket hard drivers

>> and how do i recover lost files?

>We haven't proved you've lost anything yet....
I know i have lost stuff

>Does that get you started?

>Brian

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