[mdlug] Flakey had drive

[bob dion]

R. Kannan wrote:
> 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.
> 

If push comes to shove, run ddrescue from knoppix and put the resulting 
image file on another hard drive. you can then mount that image with a 
loop device and extract what ever you need.

BD