So then, there is a way to look at the drive? Ohhhhh. I know:
boot with a livecd and then copy the data. Ewwwwe, if he has a lot of data he
could install the new drive, install Linux, and then run midnite commander to
copy everything with the attributes even.
:)~mike~(:
On Sunday 11 April 2004 12:05, technomage wrote:
> I've seen that on drives that are starting to go bad. windows won't catch
> until BSOD (by then, its waaaaaaay too late). better to backup what data
> you can, and then get a new drive. that one is going to get progressively
> more unreliable with time.
>
> Technomage Hawke
>
> On Sunday 11 April 2004 11:00 am, steve wiebelhaus wrote:
> > My system won't boot Linux any more. During boot, it works up to where it
> > starts giving the error message "hdb: lost interrupt" just after rw
> > mounting the partitions. It just keeps repeating that over and over,
> > won't do anything else. When I googled, some sites said that this problem
> > had to do with dma, and that turning dma off would fix. I tried that,
> > along with some other kernel parameters "ide=nodma, noapic, noacpi,
> > noapm, nodma" None helped. I can still boot into WindowsXP, which is on
> > the next partition on the same hard drive. I can also boot with the Suse
> > LiveCD. Using the LiveCD, I can access both hard drives, both use the dma
> > option.
> > Any ideas of what could be causing the lost interrupt, or how to fix it?
> >
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