From smartmontools-support Wed Dec 03 16:38:48 2008 From: "Richard Hartmann" Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:38:48 +0000 To: smartmontools-support Subject: Re: [smartmontools-support] Problems with two broken disks Message-Id: <2d460de70812030838i550a60adk9922ae9af9374785 () mail ! gmail ! com> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=smartmontools-support&m=122832239820401 On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 16:23, Jeremy James wrote: > Justin Piszcz wrote: >> What others may also mention is dd_rescue but I have not tried that >> myself. > > Indeed. dd_rescue is a great tool for this to skip over bad sectors. I am using it atm. Seems to be exactly what I wanted. Thanks :) > I'm assuming linux/md RAID - if you're on a hardware card then the > procedure should be similar, although more care might be needed around > the relevant equivalent to a superblock. It was a hardware RAID. Thankfully, it was a mirrored one, so I am relatively fine. Once I know how much extra fat the 3ware controller added to the beginning of the disks, I will trim that off of the images I created and run normal recovery tools on it. I will treat both images idendently, as if there never was any RAID. That's probably the easiest thing to do. In related news, what should I use to restore data from NTFS partitions in whatever NTFS version Win Server 2003 uses? My expertise with Windows is rather limited, I fear. Richard ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Smartmontools-support mailing list Smartmontools-support@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/smartmontools-support