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ftornell

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Registered: 2008-08-18

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Recover my data?

Hi,
Have a Laptop and it seems it dont want to play any more, screen black...hardware fail, not Archlinux.

My question is if I can remove the harddrive, use my external drive-bay attach the disk and mount it in another laptop and recover my documents and photos?

If I add the disk and do a tail -f /var/log/messages I can see that its give a name; [sdb]

If I try mount -t auto /dev/sdb /media/usb or -t ext4 I get:

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb,
       missing codepage or helper program, or other error
       (could this be the IDE device where you in fact use
       ide-scsi so that sr0 or sda or so is needed?)
       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
       dmesg | tail  or so

The drive is an old IDE...

Thx for any help!

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falconindy

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From: New York, USA

Registered: 2009-10-22

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Re: Recover my data?

You're trying to mount the drive, rather than the partition, so the errors are expected. Mount /dev/sdb1 instead.

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