Call me silly, but it would also probably help to mount the drive no matter how you get the drive on a diff/new system. Figure out what device the drive is recognized as (i.e. /dev/hda, /devb/hdb, etc.) and do the following: 1) Create a temporary mount point under /mnt mkdir /mnt/tmp 2) Mount the drive on that mount point. mount /dev/hdX /mnt/tmp where X is the drive letter assigned to the drive when the system boots. The system should be smart enough to auto-detect the filesytem type and not require you to pass options when you try and mount it. Dave ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Frysinger" <vapier@gentoo.org> To: <wlug@mail.wlug.org> Cc: "Michael Zarozinski" <MichaelZ@aiguru.com> Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 11:42 AM Subject: Re: [Wlug] Rescuing Data From a Hard Drive
On Wednesday 01 February 2006 14:32, Michael Zarozinski wrote:
I've got a bit of a problem... we have a linux server that contained 2 hard drives. The one with the boot information died - LUCKILY the data we NEED was on the hard drive that lived. My question is... how can I recover the data I need?
uhh why dont you just stick it into another computer, or boot off a livecd -mike