On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 08:19:47AM -0500, joe wrote: > . > Michael Sammartano wrote: (Tue, 01 Aug 08:32 -0700 ??) > > ... Drive failure. The partition table is not > > capable of retaining the data writen to it. The drive needs to have > > a recovery done on it to recover the data, further trials on the > > drive will render the useful data useless. I do not understand the > > constant cat and mouse game on this issue. ... If there is a physical > > issue, it can not be fixed. > > Which drive do you think has failed? And how can one confirm that? > > hda is an older 8-gig drive, but it is the one that is now booting > and it apparently has the MBR on it. > > hdb is a fairly new 80-gig drive, and we can still read all the > data on it by booting with a Knoppix live CD. > > Do you think I could install a Linux system on hda and then > restore lilo in the MBR on it and thereby access both drives? At this point, regardless of whether a drive is bad or not, I think you should have a good copy of any important data somewhere else besides this computer. That's always good advice, and usually ignored, and usually that works out fine. But a LOT has been going on, and weird things are happening, and messing around with partitions, etc. If you have any data that you can't lose, copy it somewhere else! -- Darrin Chandler | Phoenix BSD Users Group dwchandler@stilyagin.com | http://bsd.phoenix.az.us/ http://www.stilyagin.com/ | --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss