Recovering data from a usb hard drive

[steinooo]

hi all,

I have a thread in General Hardware but thought I'd post here now as it's become a linux issue.

If I do "df" and can't see an attached USB drive (which I think to be formatted at least partly in ntfs), does it mean that the drive is basically shafted? I believe this drive to be troublesome but not completely dead as per my op.

 

[steinooo]

thanks guys, I managed to get it to show up in df in the end, but by keep wiggling it around in my caddy, then every now and again after a file copy from the drive, it gave me input/output errors, I'm putting this down to a duff drive. I have managed to get the important docs off it anyway so i'm really happy, thanks for your help!

Plus now I know how to do this it's a very very handy skill indeed

 

[steinooo]

yea was going to reply to you in GH mate, thanks very much learned a useful trick there as well, i'm always asked to do this in my job!