hard disk failure

[Michael Havens]

I'll look into it.... but if they are beyond you they will be exponentially
beyond me!

On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 2:42 AM, Stu <wien33 at cox.net> wrote:

> Just a suggestion, have you thought about giving UBCD a try? There's a
> bunch of software tools on it, most of which are way beyond me, but I have
> managed to salvage a couple of hard drives with it in the past.
>
> http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/
>
>
>
> On 02/17/2012 04:27 PM, Technomage Hawke wrote:
>
>> you can load a live DVD into the system and then try one of the many HDD
>> test tools (badblocks with no options is a safe bet and will tell you
>> almost immediately if there are any problems). I know there is another
>> command line tool that can test drive throughput and read the SMART tables
>> on the controller. I can't remember its name off hand, but it is a good one
>> to test the drive electronics.
>>
>> -eric
>>
>> On Feb 17, 2012, at 10:05 AM, Michael Havens wrote:
>>
>>  Yep.... I think I had a hard disk failure. I restarted my computer and
>>> was presented with:
>>>
>>>      error: unknown filesystem.
>>>      grub rescue>
>>>
>>> I then typed 'ls' and the response was
>>>
>>>      (hd0) (hd0,msdos5) (hd0,msdos3) (hd0,msdos1) (fd0)
>>>
>>> which is two partitions, the swap drive, and the floppy disk
>>> how do I verify my suspicion of drive failure?
>>> funny how all this happened just as I was attempting to back it up.
>>>
>>> --
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