Re: DELL 5150 Crash

Thank you guys for everything! I ran HITACHI diagnostic/repair
bootable disk (hard drive is Hitachi Travelstar) and it fixed corrupted
sectors. I could get into the FreeBSD and move all the files to the
network.
-Ivan
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jonathan" <jonathan.michael.stewart_at_us.army.mil>
Cc: "Ivan Osipkov" <osipkov_at_cs.umn.edu>; <freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org>
Sent: Monday, September 27, 2004 4:30 PM
Subject: Re: DELL 5150 Crash


> I can say that this does work although very strangely on my system
> http://ffs.szm.sk/en/
>  From the site:
> "This project mission is to create file system driver for windows , that
> will read ufs partitions from FreeBSD. Currently read only operations on
> UFS1 or UFS2 , are supported."
>
> Hope this helps,
> Jonathan
>
> (By strangely I mean I can't open a file directly with most programs, I
> can right click and do "add to archive" with 7zip (www.7zip.org I think)
> and save the archive on my desktop then open it from there.)
>
> Sam wrote:
>
> > oh, yeah.  duh.  If you can boot a live cd you can play with
> > the filesystem (fsck, etc).
> >
> > You might also try finding a bootable disk diagnostic utility
> > to see if it can find anything correctable.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Sam
> >
> > On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Ivan Osipkov wrote:
> >
> >> Sam wrote:
> >>
> >>> Maybe VMWare can boot Freesbie.
> >>>
> >>> On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Ivan Osipkov wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> I have DELL 5150 Inspiron with Windows XP on one partition and
> >>>> FreeBSD-CURRENT on
> >>>> another. The hardware failed and now I cannot mount /usr. Dell
> >>>> diagnostics say that
> >>>> there is unrecoverable data block, which means hard drive has to be
> >>>> replaced.
> >>>>
> >>>> My question: is there a Windows tool to access files on BSD
partition?
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks guys
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> >> Anything simpler? Would Live CD from FreeBSD work?
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