--- Linux Lingam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
after a few days, reconnected the drive today.
it made some grunting noises that alarmed me,
and sure enough, folders and files are missing, or
icons changed.
unmounting it safely does not work anymore. 'df'
shows me the device
is unmounted
dear naresh narang,
Check this out -
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/193
Regards,
--Naresh
thanks for the link. like the way it gets down and dirty with bad
blocks and shows you how to tackle with them. as my hard disk was
making clicking and grunting mechanical sounds, i just
--- Linux Lingam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
bought a 120gb usb-ide external hardisk last month.
formatted it with the fat32 filesystem, connected it
to my ubuntu feisty, and
backed up some heavy files on it.
at the end of each session, ensured i properly
unmounted it before
disconnecting
Did you try connecting your device to a machine which
has usb 2.0 based bus ? Try connecting to a non legacy
hardware, your drive could be in pretty much good
shape or may require repartitioning at max.
Thanks vivek for the response.
alas! i just got fedup with the whole thing, decided to
See if this is of any help.
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8366
I am sitting on a 40 GB external harddisk that went for a six with all
the valuable data. So, keenly watching this thread.
Vikas
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