Hello,
I have had some success recovering data from a bad hard drive using a program called 'dd_rescue' (find it here: http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/ddrescue/) which is basically like 'dd' but will continue copying even if there are bad blocks (by skipping them). So you may be able to make a mountable disk image of your drive (assuming the mechanical parts still work well enough to copy enough data), though you may have to 'fsck' the image. It is important to note that "forcing" the drive to continue to read when there are errors has the potential to cause even greater damage to the drive.
Jeff Green
On December 19, 2003 05:47 pm, John Lange wrote:
Thanks to everyone that replied with suggestions. Great response!
I've never heard of the freezer thing before. I'm going to give it a whirl! If I manage to recover anything I'll be sure to inform the group what I've learned.
Merry Christmas everyone.
Regards,