Mounting Partition Manually in a Recovery Tool

[sjacas]

Need help. I have a drive that I need to copy partitions because its got issues, but with a tools that lets me individually me mount one partition at a time. As one of the issues the drive has when mounting its 7 partitions, is that last partition is corrupted in a way that freezes the drive, so no partition can be read after that point. And yes the drive is one for the now famous Seagate 7200.11 1.5tb drive, but the firmware is CC1H, which is not supposed to have the famous issue. I realize that some people have also complained having the same issue with this firmware, but if possible before updating the firmware, I would like to copy the good partitions. I know that the other partitions are fine and readable because when Windows mounts the drive and then each partition (when connected via USB after booting) Autoplay properly starts searching files, as you can see it searching in each partition, and only freezes when the mounting process gets to the corrupted partition. Once frozen no partition is then readable. In fact the drive is frozen, until you power off completely and restart.
All of the recovery tools, non windows based, I have tried, mount all the partitions for a drive at once, and thus freezes the drive after mounting the last partition you select it for copying or recovery. Windows based tools are useless because it will always mount the partitions prior, and the drive will be frozen way before I can run them. So can anybody recommend a non windows based tools that lets you mount drives one at a time, so you can copy them?

[harddrivespecialist]

Based on your description, drive has some other issues, not a Firmware.
Probably bad head or a scratch on a surface.

[sjacas]

That may be, but 6 of the 7 partitions are working, I just need to get to them, without it freezing up, when the bad partition is mounted. Once I do that, I will call Seagate for a replacement.

I only stated that it might be the firmware bug since its the systoms are identical. The only difference is that it doesn't get stuck in BSY status, and thus is recognized by the BIOS, once I power down. But note that if I don't power down and just reset, the BIOS is unable to see the drive on repost. Again very similar to the old bug as it seems to be stuck in BSY status in that instance.

Now, I know that many Linux distriutions allow/require manual partition mounting/binding for non linux file system drives, as in years past I have done it myself when experimenting with Linux. But I was hoping for a simple recovery tool that does the same without have to build a Linux machine. Also it seems that all Live CD (Bootable) Linux automount for convience, but I am still investingating that fact.

If I find a tool, or figure out a workaround, I will post it. Until then, any recommendation would be helpful

[kovacsp]

Hi,

But I was hoping for a simple recovery tool that does the same without have to build a Linux machine. Also it seems that all Live CD (Bootable) Linux automount for convience, but I am still investingating that fact.

Try SystemRescueCD. It does not mount HDDs automatically.
http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page

Hope this helps,
Peter

[pepe]

also u can use killmbr (or something like that) in MHDD
this will deactivate the MBR (delete the 55 aa signature) so partitions are not mounted automatically.
Then clone the drive to a known good one and recover data logically from that one.

pepe

[phishin_ca]

Have you imaged the disk? if not, you should stop and do that first.

[fzabkar]

Have you tried turning off Autoplay/Autorun/Autoinsert Notification?

[unknown]

Mr.Pepe => ( SWITCHMBR )

[pepe]

Yes, that's it!
it was long time ago...

pepe