Hi Friends,

I have a problem. My 8 GB IDE Hard disk has crashed. It is loaded with Linux and Win 98 OS. The hard disk is getting detected by BIOS. On boot attempt, I am getting grub promt. I think mbr is bad. I am new to linux and grub. PLEASE HELP me to recover the data, mainly on Windows 98.

Hello,
How could you say that it has been crashed ?
O/S conflication ( e.g not being able to boot any o/s) is different than hard disk crash.
plz. provide some more information that what you did before all this happened.

regards

no problemo....vinshe.You can use your boot floppy. You set ur first boot device to floppy.You boot into MS-DOS and you see the familiar prompt.Now type "fdisk /mbr"

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C:\>fdisk /mbr
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Press ctrl+alt+delete. Windows98 alone will be there. Boot into it and backup data you want.

If you tell the linux distro you are using currently we can also fix the linux partition because some distros (old use grub 0.93) some new distros use (grub version above 1).

Some info on that regard and I will help you. For now with a fixed windows, atleast you can have half ur hdd back.

Cheerz

Thanks gnukish and ruudra,

The hard disk problem occurred due to improper shut down because of power failure.

I am using red hat linux v6.5.

Today morning the problem is aggravated.

I used seagate disk manager for diagnosis and copied mbr. After that, Bios is not detecting hard disk and I am not able to see hard disk.

Is there anyway to retrive hdd.

vinshe

Hello,
i've an alternate way of retriving the data ( b'coz using rescue cd's or fixing mbr may not be helpful now )

Have u ever plugged out your hard disk out of your cabinate box ?
its a regular routine for me atleast..
so if you could do it then plug it out.......connect it to some other system ( may be yr friends ) and see if yr hard disk still alive......if its then backup your data and after formatting it try installing it again on yr system,

regards

regards

Thanks ruudra,

I tried to connect hard disk to my friends system but it is not getting detected.

Any other alternative pl!

regards

vinshe

Hello vinshe,
try detecting it on some other systems......
if still won't be able to......then better take it to your vendor otherwise enjoy the funeral ceremony ( lol )

regards

Attach you IDE hard disk as secondary slave to any other PC other than where it was earlier installed, then download a good data recovery software, now the problem is to choose best data recovery software.

I have visited many data recovery websites and evaluated many data recovery softwares. but I found one data recovery software almost excellent.

As you have two OS in your crashed hard disk one is windows 98 and another one is Linux.
To recover your data from your Windows 98 operating system use Recovery for FAT and NTFS and from Linux Operating system Recovery for Linux


I tried this software two or more times and BINGO!!!!and get all my files back.....

Really a great piece of software.........

thanks