Need help with dying drive/restoring data

[Subhro]

Which media do you intend to backup to? If I were in your place, I
would just tar the /home and the /etc and put it on a USB drive or on
a CDR/DVDR if you have a burner. However, Are you sure that the drive
is fixed firmly into the drive bay and you are seating the laptop on a
sturdy base?

Regards
S.

On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 22:58:51 +0100, Jonathon McKitrick
<jcm at freebsd-uk.eu.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Help!  My laptop drive seems to be dying, and while I did keep backups, the
> last one was a bit old.
> 
> When I boot up, the drive makes clanking sounds I've never heard before, and
> never finishes the load.  I'm going to make a rescue disk, but does anyone
> have a strategy for how I could handle the delicate job of getting my
> updated data off the drive without making matters worse?  So far, I figure I
> will boot the rescue disk and try to mount the filesystems.
> 
> jm
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