[mdlug] Flakey had drive

[Jeff Hanson]

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On 8/7/07, R. Kannan <rkannan at peoplepc.com> wrote:
> Thanks for all those who replied (and thanks Rich for fixing the mail server and open up the floodgates). I will try some of the suggestions this week and report back.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> >From: "Carl T. Miller" <millerc at cantonpl.org>
> >Sent: Aug 7, 2007 9:02 AM
> >To: MDLUG's Main discussion list <mdlug at mdlug.org>
> >Subject: Re: [mdlug] Flakey had drive
> >
> >R. Kannan wrote:
> >> The hard drive on my desktop has become flakey. Sometimes, it boots fine
> >> but fails to access data. When I booted on knoppix CD, knoppix recognized
> >> the partitions and set up the fstab file correctly but I could not mount
> >> the partitions.the 'mount' command just hung in there. I tried 'cfdisk'
> >> but it couldnot find the hard disk.
> >>
> >> Is there a way to try and do a fail-safe access just to get at the data
> >> (disable dma etc.)? Any advice is appreciated.
> >
> >I'm not sure what I would do in this situation.  Normally if
> >a hard drive is getting flakey, I'll boot from a Knoppix CD
> >and use dd to make a copy of each partition of the drive.
> >You can then safely experiment with the copies.
> >
> >You may want to run gpart (it's on the Knoppix cd) to see
> >if the guessed partition table matches the partitions found
> >at boot time.  If they don't match, I'd back up the current
> >MBR (not to the same hard drive!), write the new values with
> >gpart and reboot.  It's possible that will fix everything.
> >If not, you can write the old MBR back and it will be just
> >like you found it.
> >
> >c
> >
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