[vox-tech] Disk Failure - Data Retrieval?

[Ken Herron]

Marc,

Based on the errors you're getting, it appears the partition table area 
of the drive is giving read errors. It may be that the rest of the drive 
is okay. It appears the filesystem should start at sector 1008 of the 
drive, so something like

	dd if=/dev/hdc of=/some/file bs=512 seek=1008 ...

would allow you to copy the filesystem to an image on another drive. From 
there you can try mounting the image as a loopback mount, or fixing it 
with e2fsck etc.

Another possibility is that the drive's circuit board has failed. If you 
have another of the same model drive around, you could try swapping 
circuit boards.

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