Tried the Knoppix CDROM to try and access my Linux partitions.
The default KDE bootup would not work for some reason. However,
I was able to start it in a console mode (Knoppix 2) and run
resierfsck on my hda3 partition.
Unfortunately, I ran into disk access problems and the eventual
error message below:
reiserfsck 3.6.11 (2003
www.namesys.com)
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** If you are using the latest reiserfsprogs and it fails **
** please email bug reports to
reiserfs-list@namesys.com, **
** providing as much information as possible -- your **
** hardware, kernel, patches, settings, all reiserfsck **
** messages (including version), the reiserfsck logfile, **
** check the syslog file for any related information. **
** If you would like advice on using this program, support **
** is available for $25 at
www.namesys.com/support.html. **
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Will read-only check consistency of the filesystem on /dev/hda3
Will put log info to 'stdout'
Do you want to run this program?[N/Yes] (note need to type Yes if you do):
The problem has occurred looks like a hardware problem.
If you have bad blocks, we advise you to get a new hard
drive, because once you get one bad block that the disk
drive internals cannot hide from your sight, the chances
of getting more are generally said to become much higher
(precise statistics are unknown to us), and this disk drive
is probably not expensive enough for you to risk your time
and data on it. If you don't want to follow that advice,
then if you have just a few bad blocks, try writing to the
bad blocks and see if the drive remaps the bad blocks (that
means it takes a block it has in reserve and allocates it
for use for requests of that block number). If it cannot
remap the block, this could be quite bad, as it may mean
that so many blocks have gone bad that none remain in
reserve to allocate.
bread: Cannot read the block (2): (Input/output error).
It would appear the hard disk has developed some bad sectors and
ReiserFS cannot handle them. I suppose my whole disk is now trashed
at least the Linux partitions. I will try to reinstall Slackware and use ext2
as the filesystem.
However, prior to doing this, I would like to try to recover some data
on the partition just to see if it is possible. Symantec's Norton utilities
use to have a low-level file recovery capability for use in just this type
of situation. I would like to know if there are any recovery tools for
Linux that can accomplish this task.
Any suggestions?
