Trying to access data on old hard drive

[dikbrown]

I've got an old EIDE hard drive that used to be used for a dual-boot WinXP and Linux (not sure what version - either RH9 or FC1), and I'd like to pull some data off it. That computer died, and I reformatted the Windows partition, but left the Linux portion alone.

My current Linux (FC10 + XP) computer uses a SATA hard drive, and I'd like to get the data from the old drive to the new one. I've connected the hard drive normally, jumpered as a slave drive.

Linux now boots normally, but I can't access the older hard drive. I tried the techniques in the following thread:
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=213784
and commented there (with more info), but I thought I would be more likely to get a response by starting a new thread.

Here's a summary of what happened:
ran "fdisk -l": the command saw both hard drives
ran "tail -f /var/log/messages" and got the following:

Jul 30 16:00:44 localhost kernel: EXT3 FS on sdb8, internal journal
Jul 30 16:00:44 localhost kernel: EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Jul 30 16:00:44 localhost hald: mounted /dev/sdb8 on behalf of uid 500

sdb8 was a FAT partition I had set up for moving files back and forth between XP and Linux (none of the other partitions were reported).

ran "vgscan", which only returned one volume group

When I ran FC10's Local Volume Management tool, it sees the hard drive and its partitions, but reports them as "Uninitialized Entities".

Thanks for any help.
Dick

[JEO]

Post the output of:

fdisk -l

If the redhat/fedora is that old I doubt it has lvm by default on it.

[dikbrown]

It doesn't. Here's the output.

Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x009f009e

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 48052 385977658+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 48053 48077 200812+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 48078 60801 102205530 8e Linux LVM

Disk /dev/sdb: 160.0 GB, 160038706688 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19456 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000ab7fc

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 9726 78124063+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb2 9727 9739 104422+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdb3 9740 14838 40957717+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdb4 14839 19457 37101564+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sdb5 14839 18118 26346568+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdb6 18119 19138 8193118+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdb7 19139 19329 1534176 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdb8 19330 19457 1027575+ 83 Linux

[JEO]

Then it should be much easier to get at your data. For example, to get at the data that's in the large linux partition at sdb3, open a terminal and type:

su -
mkdir /mnt/oldsdb3
mount -t ext3 /dev/sdb3 /mnt/oldsdb3

Edit:
and to browse the data as root you can also type:

nautilus --browser /mnt/oldsdb3

[dikbrown]

OK, that all worked.

Thanks,
Dick

[JEO]

Glad to hear it.

[cd10anil]

Originally Posted by JEO

Then it should be much easier to get at your data. For example, to get at the data that's in the large linux partition at sdb3, open a terminal and type:

su -
mkdir /mnt/oldsdb3
mount -t ext3 /dev/sdb3 /mnt/oldsdb3

Edit:
and to browse the data as root you can also type:

nautilus --browser /mnt/oldsdb3

OMG...that is exactly what I am looking for....
Any book/reference you suggested to go such tips/tricks and study in fedora?

[JEO]

I find that the Linux Bible books by Christopher Negus are good for tips.

[cd10anil]

Thank you JEO, I am able to copy whole of my bad media data to new one. But using suggestion from thread
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showth...=1#post1470764
I am in bit trouble. I know there is a small tip and trick to fix it but don't know. Can you please suggest and throw some light on this ?

Thanks

[JEO]

This thread was about someone trying to use lvm to get data off a drive that was so old it did not have lvm on it. I do not ever use lvm on my own systems, due to the extra layer of complexity the occurs when problems arise. If you search the forum here you will see that there are posts about others who have had difficulty with duplicate lvm volume names and some suggestions as to how to go about renaming one of the volumes in order to copy the old data.

[cd10anil]

Thank you very much JEO. The LVM problem is resolved.

[Grace]

My systems hard drive is out of order. i think its card is not working can u give me any solution by which i can recover my data from the hard disk.
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