Need advice recovering from hard disk error
I have a mythtv FC7 system that apparently just lost some hard disk sectors, so now some critical O/S files are gone. The box will not fully boot up since the file system cannot be started. I have 2 physical hard drives, sda (150GB) and sdb (300GB), where sda has the O/S and some data, and sdb has more data. The errors are on sda, it seems.
Anyway, when I switch to single user mode and try to run fsck, I get a library loader error. Looks like the bad sector has clobbered the related O/S files, at the least.
Needless to say, I do not have a backup of so much data. But, I would like to salvage what I can, so getting this thing to boot up is imperative. Thoughts? Should I try to boot from the install DVD? Or a rescue DVD?
Advice very much appreciated.
Larry
Last edited by kennelm; 10-12-2008 at 08:07 PM.
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