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jmrbcu

Member

From: Cuba

Registered: 2007-08-20

Posts: 112

URGENT: this is for within an hour (HDD recover)

Right now I got a meeting and my arch box is failing with my home partition. When it try to get /home mounted I get this error: "Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read while reading block XXXX". I had tired fsck, e2fsck, badblocks, but nothing, I get the same error and all my docs for this meeting is in there. Any help is welcome please?

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rooloo

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Registered: 2008-07-09

Posts: 218

Re: URGENT: this is for within an hour (HDD recover)

if you are trying to boot your pc, then don't. throw in an install cd and mount the HD from within a live session. Then just copy over the data.

If the HD is failing there isn't much u can do about that now. No amount of software will fix a hardware failure.

xdeusx

Member

Registered: 2007-10-15

Posts: 168

Re: URGENT: this is for within an hour (HDD recover)

TestDisk
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

it's also in AUR

gtalum

Member

From: Bradenton, FL

Registered: 2008-07-07

Posts: 9

Re: URGENT: this is for within an hour (HDD recover)

When it gives you the error, it gives you the option to login as root with read-only partitions.  Do so. 

Then 'umount /home', assumign /home is where the error is.

Then 'fsck /dev/sdxx'.  When it gets to an error, ignore it and then force a rewrite. 

When it's all done reboot.

My computer did the same thing to me a few days ago and this fixed the problem.

Last edited by gtalum (2008-07-18 19:45:40)

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