need help to recover data from damaged hdd

[Christopher K. Johnson]

Alexander Appel wrote:

> Hello all!
>
> A few minutes ago I shut down my computer running Fedora Core 1 and 
> received some dma_initr error messages in the shutdown process.
> When I tried to reboot I received an S.M.A.R.T. error for hdb on which 
> my root, /boot, /swap and /home partitions lie.
> Running an hardware test from IBM I received the message that there 
> are some currupt sectors which could not be repaired because the file 
> system isn't supported (I'm using ext2 and ext3).
> Then I booted using a knoppix-cd and tried fsck and received the error 
> message: "fsck.ext2: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in 
> short read while trying to open /dev/hdb1"
> Is there a possibility to recover at least my /home directory which 
> contains a lot of importand files and hasn't been backuped for a while?
>
> Greetings
> Alexander Appel
>
>
While booted in knoppix or 'linux rescue' upon booting the fc1 disk1 cd 
try using these options in your mount command:
-o ro,errors=continue

Hopefully you will then be able to read most of your files, depending on 
what was in the bad sectors.

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