[TriLUG] One thing led to another and killed my Samsung Ultrabook running Linux Mint.

[Jeremy Davis via TriLUG]

Thanks for the sound advice!
On May 21, 2015 4:29 PM, "David Burton via TriLUG" <trilug at trilug.org>
wrote:

> Yeah, the first thing I'd do is boot a "live" distro from CD or thumbdrive,
> and use it to clone the HDD to a backup drive, or at least backup your
> important files.
>
> However, I'd use ddrescue
> <http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/manual/ddrescue_manual.html> rather
> than dd to copy the HDD. If your HDD is starting to fail, ddrescue will
> nevertheless recover whatever it is possible to recover. Be sure to use it
> with a "log file" so that it can resume if it is interrupted.
>
> Assuming you've booted from a CD, and your old HDD is /dev/sda, and your
> USB-attached new or scratch HDD is /dev/sdb, and your thumbdrive's data
> partition is /dev/sdc1, then do it like this:
>
> 1. verify which is which of the three drives:
>
> fdisk -lu
>
>
> *Be very, very sure you don't mix them up, lest you destroy all your
> data!!!*
>
> 2. copy the drive:
>
> mount /dev/sdc1 /media/sdc1
> cd /media/sdc1
> mkdir rescue_hdd
> cd rescue_hdd
> ddrescue -B -f /dev/sda /dev/sdb drive.log
>
>
>
> Dave
>
>
>
> On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 2:31 PM, Joseph Mack NA3T via TriLUG <
> trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 21 May 2015, Jeremy Davis via TriLUG wrote:
> >
> >  So I need help getting back in.
> >>
> >
> > it's completely possible that your apps are stewed. However the user code
> > should have survived what you did.
> >
> > Before you start reinstalling and getting too far from the state the
> > machine was in when it started having trouble, you might want to do some
> > sanity checks. Is your disk OK? (run the smartctl long test `smartctl -t
> > long /dev/sda`, from a livecd eg systemrescue disk).
> >
> > If it's OK make a dd copy of the disk, then start messing with the disk
> >
> > Joe
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