[ubuntu-uk] Hard drive- Bad sectors

[Simon Greenwood]

On 16 April 2010 11:08, javadayaz <javadayaz at gmail.com> wrote:

> My brother has just had his hard drive fail. Testdisk is saying "All bad
> sectors".  Is there anything that can be done to rescue the data?
>


If he (or you) have another machine, it could be removed and put in that
either directly or with a USB hard drive adapter to see if it will mount on
another machine - there's always the possibility that the drive controller
has failed rather than the drive. If that works, you could make an image of
the disk using dd or other disk imaging tools.

s/



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