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i crashed my hard drive and it cannot boot anymore.
My hard drive is dual boot linux/window
So, I use Ubuntu Live CD to boot and I go into that.
Then I sudo fdisk -1
Unless the partition table you show is damaged sda5 is your linux partition. Can you mount it under your live CD and use a backup method like dump to a remote machine?
Unless the partition table you show is damaged sda5 is your linux partition. Can you mount it under your live CD and use a backup method like dump to a remote machine?
My hard drive is crashed, therefore
if I do
sudo mkdir my_file
sudo mount /dev/sda5 /my_file
After a long long while, it says : mount point /my_file does not exist.
I check, the /my_file folder exists. remember, my hard drive has crashed.
Try a "dry run" of fsck on this filesystem, see what it tells you.
I did sudo fsck /dev/sda5
but it says back.ext2: attempts to read block from filesystem resulted in short read while trying to open /dev/sda5.
Could this be a zero length partition?
±++±+++++++++++++++++±+++++++++++++++++++++++
So from above, is my Linux partition cannot be recovered? or the system still can't find it?
"short read" means the read stopped on a bad block. Make a backup of the data using dd commands to skip any unreadable parts, then repair by forcing a write of the bad block(s), which will cause the disk to relocate them to spare areas. After that run fsck to recover your filesystem. ext2 has redundant superblocks, so it should be possible to recover some of the data.
"short read" means the read stopped on a bad block. Make a backup of the data using dd commands to skip any unreadable parts, then repair by forcing a write of the bad block(s), which will cause the disk to relocate them to spare areas. After that run fsck to recover your filesystem. ext2 has redundant superblocks, so it should be possible to recover some of the data.
How do I use that?
dd if=/dev/sda5 of=my_file.img?
Then fsck my_file.img?
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