[ubuntu-uk] Hard drive- Bad sectors

[javadayaz]

thank you again. will forward your advice.

On 16 April 2010 13:30, Alan Pope <alan at popey.com> wrote:

> On 16 April 2010 13:19, javadayaz <javadayaz at gmail.com> wrote:
> > quote : "The problem is that testdisk cant find any partitions at all..
> or
> > even read any data off it"
> >
>
> Unlikely to be the mbr then. More likely the circuitry, controller on
> the motherboard or disk itself. All of which are hardware issues. if
> it were my machine I'd probably get myself a big fat usb drive for
> backup and do whatever odd freezer trick someone suggested and as soon
> as it is alive, backup the whole thing to usb disk. Then throw the
> disk away.
>
> Cheers,
> Al.
>
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