Pau Iranzo wrote: > it's been years since I last installed Windows on one of my > computers (2003 maybe?). Again, Windows or not is irrelevant. The hard drive is physically broken and that would have happened at the same point in time regardless of anything that software has been doing. > The thing was that I was excited about btrfs and I had used it > since it was on the partition manager on the Ubuntu installer. I > hadn't had any problems with btrfs on my computers until this. Then > I discovered there was no fsck :( As I explained already, just powering up the disk reduces your chances of recovering data, and reading lots of data from the disk even more so, so the fact that there is no fsck that you could have run on the disk is actually in your case an advantage. I hope this was already absolutely clear. > I'll try what you told me. Expect to spend some time on data recovery. Make sure to have enough free space for a dd_rescue copy of the broken disk. In order to avoid the risk of hitting one of those misbehaving USB adapters better try to hook up the disk to a mainboard controller. //Peter -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
