[olug] SUSE Linux 9.3 help

[Craig Wolf]

I will second this.  It works...1 time.  I saved my boss's rear when I
did this for his home machine.  It WAS funny watching it drip
condensation as I was copying files off of it.  8)

Craig Wolf
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Desktop/Network Specialist
402-894-6283


>>> neal at lists.rauhauser.net 11/17/2005 >>>

    This works for me at times, but people will laugh.

    Put the drive in a plastic bag. Place it in the freezer. Come back

twenty  minutes later, unwrap, power up, and don't jack around - get 
everything from it you can as soon as it boots. This is a decent plan 
when its a thermal failure.

     If its bearings and it just plain sticks put the power to it, snap

it back and forth a couple of times by hand to break the platters
loose, 
and don't shut it down till you've got what you need.

     Did you try an fsck of the afflicted partition first? ie fsck 
/dev/hosed from the command line after the system boots? What does it
say?

Joe Gulizia wrote:

>I was running SUSE 9.3 professional when my hard drive
>started to lock-up often.  Now it is to the point
>where I cannot get hda11 (Home directories) to mount.
>
>I think the hard drive is going bad.  How can I get
>the home directories and their information retrieved
>and saved?
>
>I did have a cron job (backup) that ran nightly onto
>another drive.
>
>
>I basically need to be able open a word processor and
>print it out to an HP Deskjet 842C (kids homework).
>
>Currently I'm using a Knoppix live CD if that helps.
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>
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