[mdlug] Flakey had drive

[R. Kannan]

Hi,

The hard drive on my desktop has become flakey. Sometimes, it boots fine but fails to access data. When I booted on knoppix CD, knoppix recognized the partitions and set up the fstab file correctly but I could not mount the partitions.the 'mount' command just hung in there. I tried 'cfdisk' but it couldnot find the hard disk.

Is there a way to try and do a fail-safe access just to get at the data (disable dma etc.)? Any advice is appreciated.

TIA

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