<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff"> On 07/27/2011 11:26 AM, Curt wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:4E302E35.2080701@grics.net" type="cite"> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> On 07/27/2011 09:55 AM, nathan nolast wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:CA+9LqF6JXBW_dUsFGAyo1Opb0VXaZHhQ5=m2c4Gr7HLULqubRw@mail.gmail.com" type="cite">is the drive an internal drive or an external drive? have you tried any of the "put your hard drive in the freezer" tricks? </blockquote> It is an internal drive. However I do have a USB/SATA adapter I could try. not sure if that would make a difference or not. Haven't tried the freezer trick yet. <blockquote cite="mid:CA+9LqF6JXBW_dUsFGAyo1Opb0VXaZHhQ5=m2c4Gr7HLULqubRw@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> have you tried to mount the drive from terminal? from my understanding there is a force mount option "-o force" </blockquote> I hadn't but now I have... Since the disk that shows is /dev/sda I guess it's reasonable to assume the other one is /dev/sdb. I made a dir "sickdisk" and tried "sudo mount -t ext3 /dev/sdb /media/sickdisk" (without -o force) but the terminal responded "special device /dev/sdb does not exist" .... and with the -o force option, it returned: ">" only. I've unmounted /dev/sda but find that both drives feel like they are spinning. Maybe there's some other problem? <blockquote cite="mid:CA+9LqF6JXBW_dUsFGAyo1Opb0VXaZHhQ5=m2c4Gr7HLULqubRw@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 10:48 AM, CJ <<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:ctres@grics.net">ctres@grics.net</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> I'm attempting to save some data - not necessarily all - from a disk that is failing or possibly I'm afraid already dead and gone. I've attached it along with a good drive to one machine and booted into an Ubuntu live disk. The good disk shows up (sudo fdisk -l) but the other does not appear. Am I sol at this point or is there a way to force the drive to appear? -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote> </div> -- Thank you for your time ~Nathan <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:nathan1465@gmail.com" target="_blank">nathan1465@gmail.com</a> </blockquote> </blockquote> <tt>There are some utilities that run on Windows. I don't remember their names. One of my office mates (when I was still working-- that's about 10 years ago--found one that he swore that "If the disk turns, it will read it." And it did. Don't know if you have Windows, or if the program will read anything but NTFS, but that's where I would look first. --doug </tt> <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- Blessed are the peacemakers...for they shall be shot at from both sides. --A. M. Greeley</pre> </body> </html>