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On Sun, 5 Jul 2009, tom wrote: > When my laptop went west a component on the motherboard overheated. It > seems to have done something to the hard drive so the hard drive is > asking to be initialised. Does anyone know of a way of just kicking its > bottom to see it the data is still there on the drive? What do you mean by "askingto be initialised"? What format is(was) it - ext3, ntfs, ? It sounds like you're plugging it into a box that's running some sort of automounter/detector, xxx ... and the default option is to re-format something it doen't recognise. This is where (IMO) you need a box with *all* of that turned off and you need to do it "by hand". So do a surface scan, check the partition table, see if you can mount it read only, if not, then you need to think about the fsck options to fix it (assuming ext2/3/4, or the equivalents for other filesystems) Good luck.. Gordon -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html