fdisk "unable to open" /dev/hdb

[neidorff]

Hi folks,

My wife's hard disk stopped booting, and her backup is corrupt.  (of course)

I took the disk and put it as a slave (/dev/hdb) in a linux machine.  Booted
up.  fdisk reported that it is "unable to open" the drive.  Now this is
weird.  The bios reports that the drive is there when I power on.  This is a
different error than a missing disk, that error is "unable to read".  Anyone
have any idea what type of failure I have on the disk and how to read it to
recover data?

Many, many thanks,

Mark
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