hard disk failure

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Pls type here the dd command you are running...
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Michael Havens writes: 

> hmmmmm.... I can't cut a break I tell ya! I started system rescue cd  and
> see an option to 'Boot an exhisting Linux OS installed on the disk.' I
> select it and it says, 'Attempting to mount <partition>' (6 differant
> partitions) and then '!!!Cannot find a valid root filesystem....' 
> 
> I'm running your dd command right now and it has been running like 2
> minutes. 
> 
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> On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 10:05 AM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> 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. 
>>
>> --
>> :-)~MIKE~(-: 
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> -- 
> :-)~MIKE~(-: