[svlug] disk repair

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Ehud Kaldor (ehud.kaldor at gmail.com):

> Hi all,
> i have a few hard disk malfunctioning. these are older disks and retrieving
> the data is less crucial (though would be nice), but when i connect them to
> my Linux, it says they report the wrong size. fsck, fdisk - all fail doing
> anything (that i know how to do) with them. even SpinRite says it cannot do
> anything with them...
> 
> any idea on how to re-live them? as said, data on them is less important,
> but they are a Seagate 160GB and WD 80GB, and i would like to use them.

Try this live-CD distro:
http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/looplinux/rip/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recovery_Is_Possible

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