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@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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