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From: SpreadTooThin on 5 May 2010 12:22 My hard drive crashed... I'm in single user mode. I did the fsck and it gave an error indicating the drive was bed. I do an ls and I can see all my files. I need a few of them off the drive so I can put them on a new computer. I can't ftp .... apparently... Can I connect a usb key and mount it and try copying some files over? boot DVD? Disk Utility?
From: nospam on 5 May 2010 12:36 In article <8bd9c699-be19-4304-9080-87adeb270d59(a)a2g2000prd.googlegroups.com>, SpreadTooThin <bjobrien62(a)gmail.com> wrote: > My hard drive crashed... I'm in single user mode. I did the fsck and > it gave an error indicating the drive was bed. > I do an ls and I can see all my files. > I need a few of them off the drive so I can put them on a new > computer. > I can't ftp .... apparently... > Can I connect a usb key and mount it and try copying some files over? > boot DVD? Disk Utility? does it not mount when you boot normally? if not, get disk warrior. <http://www.alsoft.com/DiskWarrior/index.html>
From: SpreadTooThin on 5 May 2010 12:39 On May 5, 10:36 am, nospam <nos...(a)nospam.invalid> wrote: > In article > <8bd9c699-be19-4304-9080-87adeb270...(a)a2g2000prd.googlegroups.com>, > > SpreadTooThin <bjobrie...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > My hard drive crashed... I'm in single user mode. I did the fsck and > > it gave an error indicating the drive was bed. > > I do an ls and I can see all my files. > > I need a few of them off the drive so I can put them on a new > > computer. > > I can't ftp .... apparently... > > Can I connect a usb key and mount it and try copying some files over? > > boot DVD? Disk Utility? > > does it not mount when you boot normally? if not, get disk warrior. > > <http://www.alsoft.com/DiskWarrior/index.html> It will not boot normally hence I tried single user mode and fsck. It did not work. I tried to boot from DVD and verify / repair... No go. I have a gui now that belongs to the dvd install, but I can't figure out how to mount the drive and copy what I need...
From: nospam on 5 May 2010 12:46 In article <44b3a336-0b53-4153-8f98-f8d351dd4531(a)11g2000prw.googlegroups.com>, SpreadTooThin <bjobrien62(a)gmail.com> wrote: > It will not boot normally hence I tried single user mode and fsck. > It did not work. > I tried to boot from DVD and verify / repair... No go. then you need disk warrior > I have a gui now that belongs to the dvd install, but I can't figure > out how to mount the drive and copy what I need... depending on what's wrong, it may not be mountable.
From: JF Mezei on 5 May 2010 15:18
SpreadTooThin wrote: > My hard drive crashed... I'm in single user mode. I did the fsck and > it gave an error indicating the drive was bed. What is the exact error message you got ? Remember that when boot into single user mode, by default the disk is mounted read-only, you need to mount it manually to get read-write (which is needed for fsck to do it job). The instructions to mount it are displayed when you boot into single user mode. > I do an ls and I can see all my files. Looks like the disk is still usable. When you boot form the install DVDs, does it give any error message on why it can't fix it ? > I can't ftp .... apparently... Doubt this is functional in single user mode. > Can I connect a usb key and mount it and try copying some files over? > boot DVD? Disk Utility? I *think* you should be able to mount a USB key. But you will need to use the mount command manually because the process which automatically mounts stuff for you isn't running. Not sure what the "mount" command syntax is for mounting USB drives. |