12-12-2006, 07:04 PM
A good friend of mine just had his hard drive fail He was running Ubuntu linux. It is a SATA drive.
I got him up and running again with a new drive and new install, but want to try to rescue some data from the disc (which would no longer "mount").
I have a hunch that we can get at the data, but I only have experience rescuing "regular" hard drives.
If I take this SATA drive and put it into my mac or PC box (both of which have SATA), will I be able to mount the drive? I don't have a SATA case or an adaptor thingy.
If I put the drive back into his PC and boot from the new Ubuntu install, would it be straightforward to mount the drive and rescue data?
I just don't have a lot of experience with linux systems - mount points, etc.
Any other advice about mounting and getting data off of this drive? ISD here has been unhelpful.
Thanks.
sam
I got him up and running again with a new drive and new install, but want to try to rescue some data from the disc (which would no longer "mount").
I have a hunch that we can get at the data, but I only have experience rescuing "regular" hard drives.
If I take this SATA drive and put it into my mac or PC box (both of which have SATA), will I be able to mount the drive? I don't have a SATA case or an adaptor thingy.
If I put the drive back into his PC and boot from the new Ubuntu install, would it be straightforward to mount the drive and rescue data?
I just don't have a lot of experience with linux systems - mount points, etc.
Any other advice about mounting and getting data off of this drive? ISD here has been unhelpful.
Thanks.
sam