Barely functioning HD, and seeking advice re: how to successfully record in blu-ray

[sciguy-Lmt0BfyYGMw at public.gmane.org]

I am using a live DVD for my rescue efforts, since the entertainment
center is single-boot (W7). The live Linux I am using is a Slackware
variant called "Partition Magic". You can Google it like I did. Right
now, PM is running entirely in RAM, which certainly makes it run faster.
:-)

"fsck.ext4 -b" expects me to specify an alternate superblock. I don't
know what to place there. At any rate, while I recall the error from
fsck being "can't find superblock", I am also getting I/O errors any time
I do anything to access the drive using fdisk. So, I am suspecting that
there is a general hardware failure (as the fdisk error messages suggest,
which I had been ignoring).

Paul

> On 13-08-18 11:23 PM, Paul King wrote:
>> The 1TB Seagate I had been using and trying to recover data from is
>> being officially declared “pooched”.
>>
>> The Linux partitions on it which I thought were viable were not upon
>> closer examination. Nearly all files and directories were missing below
>> the root level of any partition I looked at.
>
> Was the drive in such a bad shape that even using the alternate
> superblocks
> was not of any help in recovering data on the drives?
>


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