How to recover data from harddrive

mchiunda · 06-02-2009, 04:03 AM

How do I recover data from a hard drive that has been install with fedora 10, should I slave it on another fedora pc. I failed to rescue it with Fedora DVD but there is information I need to retrieve from this harddrive. What are the procedures steps to take

**wmorri** · 06-02-2009, 08:16 PM

Hi,

I am confused, is the data on a seperate partition on the hdd? Or have you written over the data when you installed F10? A little bit more information about the hdd and data would be helpful.

Cheers!

mchiunda · 06-03-2009, 12:35 AM

The harddrive was installed with the fedora 10 and fail to boot, when all white the loading bar remain stagnant there, then an error message come up, as a result I tried to recue it but to no avail. Now on this hard drive there is information I need to retrieve. I have another computer installed with fedora 10 which I want to slave the the fault hard drive in order to get the data

**wmorri** · 06-03-2009, 09:37 AM

Hi,

You can try that. I would just make sure that you be carefull about which hdd you are pulling from and then moving the data too. If the slave ever had windows on it i would be very careful, too.

Cheers!

RingLeadr · 06-03-2009, 12:08 PM

You could potentially boot from a CD or external hard drive and copy files that way, as well.

mchiunda · 06-10-2009, 02:16 AM

Now am able to go to the command prompt, if i use code locate (folder name) i can see the folder path. How do I copy these folder to external harddrive, the external harddrive is /dev/sdd1 and the data i want to retrieve is on disk /dev/sda. When i used cp /dev/sda1/home/Administrator/User Data/Info /dev/sdd1/New Folder.
I am getting this error message cp:target '/dev/sdd1/New folder' is not a directory.

How do I copy the home directory files to the usb external drive

mchiunda · 06-10-2009, 02:39 AM

Now am able to go to the command prompt, if i use code locate (folder name) i can see the folder path. How do I copy these folder to external harddrive, the external harddrive is /dev/sdd1 and the data i want to retrieve is on disk /dev/sda. When i used cp /dev/sda1/home/Administrator/User Data/Info /dev/sdd1/New Folder.
I am getting this error message cp:target '/dev/sdd1/New folder' is not a directory.

How do I copy the home directory files to the usb external drive

**wmorri** · 06-11-2009, 08:16 PM

Hi,

You should be able to do it with the command

Code:

 cp /home /dev/sda1/(whatever folder)

Cheers!

06-02-2009, 04:03 AM	#1 (permalink)
mchiunda Registered User Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 76 OS: WINDOWS XP	How to recover data from harddrive How do I recover data from a hard drive that has been install with fedora 10, should I slave it on another fedora pc. I failed to rescue it with Fedora DVD but there is information I need to retrieve from this harddrive. What are the procedures steps to take

06-02-2009, 08:16 PM	#2 (permalink)
wmorri Moderator/Fedora Amb. Join Date: May 2008 Location: /pm/etc Posts: 2,719 OS: Window 7/Fedora 10 My System	Re: How to recover data from harddrive Hi, I am confused, is the data on a seperate partition on the hdd? Or have you written over the data when you installed F10? A little bit more information about the hdd and data would be helpful. Cheers! __________________ Linux Forever!

06-03-2009, 12:35 AM	#3 (permalink)
mchiunda Registered User Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 76 OS: WINDOWS XP	Re: How to recover data from harddrive The harddrive was installed with the fedora 10 and fail to boot, when all white the loading bar remain stagnant there, then an error message come up, as a result I tried to recue it but to no avail. Now on this hard drive there is information I need to retrieve. I have another computer installed with fedora 10 which I want to slave the the fault hard drive in order to get the data

06-03-2009, 09:37 AM	#4 (permalink)
wmorri Moderator/Fedora Amb. Join Date: May 2008 Location: /pm/etc Posts: 2,719 OS: Window 7/Fedora 10 My System	Re: How to recover data from harddrive Hi, You can try that. I would just make sure that you be carefull about which hdd you are pulling from and then moving the data too. If the slave ever had windows on it i would be very careful, too. Cheers! __________________ Linux Forever!

06-03-2009, 12:08 PM	#5 (permalink)
RingLeadr Registered User Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 11 OS: Ubuntu 8.10	Re: How to recover data from harddrive You could potentially boot from a CD or external hard drive and copy files that way, as well.

06-10-2009, 02:16 AM	#6 (permalink)
mchiunda Registered User Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 76 OS: WINDOWS XP	Re: How to recover data from harddrive Now am able to go to the command prompt, if i use code locate (folder name) i can see the folder path. How do I copy these folder to external harddrive, the external harddrive is /dev/sdd1 and the data i want to retrieve is on disk /dev/sda. When i used cp /dev/sda1/home/Administrator/User Data/Info /dev/sdd1/New Folder. I am getting this error message cp:target '/dev/sdd1/New folder' is not a directory. How do I copy the home directory files to the usb external drive

06-10-2009, 02:39 AM	#7 (permalink)
mchiunda Registered User Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 76 OS: WINDOWS XP	Re: How to recover data from harddrive Now am able to go to the command prompt, if i use code locate (folder name) i can see the folder path. How do I copy these folder to external harddrive, the external harddrive is /dev/sdd1 and the data i want to retrieve is on disk /dev/sda. When i used cp /dev/sda1/home/Administrator/User Data/Info /dev/sdd1/New Folder. I am getting this error message cp:target '/dev/sdd1/New folder' is not a directory. How do I copy the home directory files to the usb external drive

06-11-2009, 08:16 PM	#8 (permalink)
wmorri Moderator/Fedora Amb. Join Date: May 2008 Location: /pm/etc Posts: 2,719 OS: Window 7/Fedora 10 My System	Re: How to recover data from harddrive Hi, You should be able to do it with the command Code: cp /home /dev/sda1/(whatever folder) Cheers! __________________ Linux Forever!