8 Oct
2011
8 Oct
'11
9:59 p.m.
On 08/10/2011 20:41, Mag. Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
Well, looks like the harddrive. Get a drive now,
your's could fail any second.
If you do not hear a clicking noise from your drive, then I'd say you make a
1:1 copy with a live CD (e.g.: puppy linux), replace your old drive with the
new one and keep going till you find time to reinstall.
Nik
Copying 1:1, strictly speaking (e.g. using dd), a defunct disk could lead you to obtain a
clone that is less functional than the original. I had the problem because of bad sectors
on a huge xfs logical volume (lvm). I was simply unable to mount/check/restore the clone
xfs volume after cloning it with dd. I ended to reformat the new hdd manually and make
copies with rsync which, at least, was able to copy 99% of the files, except the files
written on bad blocks.
Nicolas