Trust me, in my world "Hex" is a witches curse!
On 02/18/2012 09:49 AM, Michael Havens wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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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