[mythtv-users] Lost my OS hard drive

[Jim Morton]

James Crow wrote:
> Today I switched from DSL to cable internet. The installer asked me to 
> move my computer (MBE) so that he could install a jack behind it. I 
> shut everything down and moved the system. When I powered things back 
> up I got the horrible click of death from one of my drives. It turns 
> out that the drive that had failed is my OS disk. All my recordings 
> sit on dedicated spindles. I also had a cron job that backed up my 
> database every night and saved it to a directory under /home. Problem 
> is that /home was on the same spindle as my /. In hindsight that was 
> obviously not the correct place to store the mysql backup, but I don't 
> think I realized it when I set things up.
>
> So now I have lost my mythconverg DB as well as its backups. All my 
> recordings are intact. Is there any way to rebuild the portion of the 
> database that shows the recorded files with just the recordings? I 
> have an older db backup from ~ 6 months ago on an older machine so 
> that will contain some of the older recorded and then deleted 
> programs. I have 1.9TB of recordings and would hate to just end up 
> with files I can view through mythvideo instead of through the 
> recordings interface.
>
> If anyone has any ideas on possible ways to salvage a drive with the 
> click of death I'm open to suggestions.
>
> Thanks,
> James

I had one that would not spin up. After the freezer trick didn't work 
and banging it around didn't work, I took the cover off of it (it had 
those security torx screws) and while plugged into a system, started the 
platters spinning by hand. Once I got it spinning, it kept going and 
worked long enough to copy everything to another drive.

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 Jim Morton