help! can i recover my data?

[gboyce-qL0WqcyiFk9Wk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org (Gregory Boyce)]

I did some disk recovery from a failing hard drive a few months back, and 
wrote up what I did.

http://gdfuego.blogspot.com/2009/02/data-recovery-from-bad-disk.html

Hopefully it'll help.

On Thu, 13 Aug 2009, Robert La Ferla wrote:

> Is it possible for me to recover my data?  I saw errors in the logs
> (see below) and tried fscking the drive (see part of the log below -
> in the middle of this email) and then now when I try to fsck I get this:
>
>
> Current situation:
>
> # fsck /dev/sdc1
> fsck 1.40.6 (09-Feb-2008)
> e2fsck 1.40.6 (09-Feb-2008)
> fsck.ext2: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short
> read while trying to open /dev/sdc1
> Could this be a zero-length partition?
>
>
>
> Previous attempts at fsck:
>
>
>
> # fsck /dev/sdc1
> fsck 1.40.6 (09-Feb-2008)
> e2fsck 1.40.6 (09-Feb-2008)
> Superblock has an invalid ext3 journal (inode 8).
> Clear<y>? yes
>
> *** ext3 journal has been deleted - filesystem is now ext2 only ***
>
> /dev/sdc1 contains a file system with errors, check forced.
> Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
> Error reading block 65538 (Attempt to read block from filesystem
> resulted in short read) while getting next inode from scan.  Ignore
> error<y>? yes
>
> Force rewrite<y>? yes
>
> Error reading block 65539 (Attempt to read block from filesystem
> resulted in short read) while getting next inode from scan.  Ignore
> error<y>? yes
>
> Force rewrite<y>? yes
>
> ...
> ....
>
>
> I was getting these errors:
>
> 98/00:00:39:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 32768 in
>          res 51/40:00:11:5c:98/00:00:39:00:00/f0 Emask 0x9 (media
> error)
> ata5.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
> ata5.00: error: { UNC }
> ata5.00: configured for UDMA/100
> ata5: EH complete
> ata5.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
> ata5.00: BMDMA2 stat 0x181c8109
> ata5.00: cmd 25/00:40:0f:5c:98/00:00:39:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 32768 in
>          res 51/40:00:11:5c:98/00:00:39:00:00/f0 Emask 0x9 (media
> error)
> ata5.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
> ata5.00: error: { UNC }
> ata5.00: configured for UDMA/100
> ata5: EH complete
> ata5.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
> ata5.00: BMDMA2 stat 0x181c8109
> ata5.00: cmd 25/00:40:0f:5c:98/00:00:39:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 32768 in
>          res 51/40:00:11:5c:98/00:00:39:00:00/f0 Emask 0x9 (media
> error)
> ata5.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
> ata5.00: error: { UNC }
> ata5.00: configured for UDMA/100
> ata5: EH complete
> ata5.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
> ata5.00: BMDMA2 stat 0x181c8109
> ata5.00: cmd 25/00:40:0f:5c:98/00:00:39:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 32768 in
>          res 51/40:00:11:5c:98/00:00:39:00:00/f0 Emask 0x9 (media
> error)
>
>
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