Re: hard disk failure

Another (NON destructive) check you may to do:
as root:
dd if=/dev/{your partition} of=/dev/null
Your HD will (most likely) be OK if it finishes without other error than
"read beyond EOF" (or something like that)
ET



Michael Havens writes:

> 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.
>
> --
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
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