hard drive ressurection???
I have recently become a victim of the ibm deathstar "click of death", and have no access to my D: drive from windows or dos. It has been suggested to me that although windows98se and the bios do not recognise the drive, it may be possible to use a linux boot disk to access and possibly copy information to another drive.
1: Is this possible or am I wasting my time?
2: I have installed the drive as primary master, disconnected all other drives and run the command:-
mount -t vfat -o ro /dev/hda1 /mnt.
I get the response:-
attempt to access beyond end of device.
03:01: rw=0 want=1 limit=0
dev 03:01 blksize=1024 blocknr=0 sector=0 size=1024 count=1
fat bread failed.
wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda1, or too many mounted file systems,
(arent you trying to mount an extended partition instead of some logical partition inside?)
3: Is my drive dead?
Any help or advice would be appreciated.
Regards.
Slammer.
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