Out of curiosity, what do you mean by 'fix' in this instance? What was
originally wrong with the thing?
-- Ben Doom
Programmer & General Lackey
Moonbow Software, Inc
: -----Original Message-----
: From: SMR [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
: Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 10:07 AM
: To: CF-Community
: Subject: Re: partition help
:
:
: there is no abnormal sound. My computer is fine, the drive was given to me
: to fix so its not in the same computer that it was in. Yes its an IBM
: Deathstar hard drive, but I don't believe its having a mechanical failure,
: just the partition is screwed. I already ran troubleshooter non
: destructive
: tests on it and everything checks out fine with the drive.
:
: ----- Original Message -----
: From: "Ben Doom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
: To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
: Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 9:57 AM
: Subject: RE: partition help
:
:
: > I am not a harbinger. I am Doom, destroyer of disks, defiler of files,
: and
: > Bane of network systems.
: >
: > But that's beside the point.
: >
: > Yah, it's starting to sound like a hardware problem. If, for
: example, the
: > controller is fine but it's headcrashing it might behave like that,
: > especially if the partition information has been destroyed.
: >
: > If it were me, I'd take it out of the case and listen for any clicks or
: > grinds coming from it as you try to do any sort of read access.
: >
: >
: > -- Ben Doom
: > Programmer & General Lackey
: > Moonbow Software, Inc
: >
: > : -----Original Message-----
: > : From: Craig Dudley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
: > : Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 9:41 AM
: > : To: CF-Community
: > : Subject: RE: partition help
: > :
: > :
: > : Oooh IBM hd, not that I want to be the harbinger of doom or anything
: > : (that's Ben's job) but they do have an awful reputation for failing,
: > : I've had 2 fail myself with quite similar symptoms, has it got a bit
: > : more noisy recently too?
: > :
: > : -----Original Message-----
: > : From: SMR [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
: > : Sent: 05 February 2003 14:24
: > : To: CF-Community
: > : Subject: Re: partition help
: > :
: > : also, I watched the bios on boot up and it shows disk 0 is my 3 gig
: > : win2k
: > : boot and disk 1 is the 20gig ibm that has a bad partition.
: > :
: > : ----- Original Message -----
: > : From: "Craig Dudley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
: > : To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
: > : Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 9:11 AM
: > : Subject: RE: partition help
: > :
: > :
: > : > If disk manager doesn't see it, then it's not working. It's
: Possibly a
: > : > hardware conflict.
: > : >
: > : > Try swapping it over to the master disk and booting with a dos disk,
: > : can
: > : > u then read the files?
: > : >
: > : > Possibly your master disk is setup to be the master and have no
: > : slaves,
: > : > there might be a jumper on the master disk to set it up as
: master with
: > : > slave.
: > : >
: > : > -----Original Message-----
: > : > From: SMR [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
: > : > Sent: 05 February 2003 14:04
: > : > To: CF-Community
: > : > Subject: Re: partition help
: > : >
: > : > its on the primary controller with the master disk. Its a slave disk
: > : and
: > : > no
: > : > disk manager doesn't see a physical or logical drive
: > : >
: > : >
: > : > ----- Original Message -----
: > : > From: "Nick McClure" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
: > : > To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
: > : > Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 9:04 AM
: > : > Subject: RE: partition help
: > : >
: > : >
: > : > > Win2k Disk manager doesn't see the physical drive or the logical
: > : > drives?
: > : > >
: > : > > Is the drive on a secondary IDE controller? If so are the drivers
: > : for
: > : > > the IDE controller installed?
: > : > >
: > : > > > -----Original Message-----
: > : > > > From: SMR [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
: > : > > > Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 8:52 AM
: > : > > > To: CF-Community
: > : > > > Subject: Re: partition help
: > : > > >
: > : > > > fdisk see's it as a non-dos partition.. going into win2k and
: > : looking
: > : > > at
: > : > > > it,
: > : > > > it doesn't recognize a drive or partition. norton disk
: doctor for
: > : > > windows
: > : > > > doesn't see anything either.
: > : > > >
: > : > > > ----- Original Message -----
: > : > > > From: "Nick McClure" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
: > : > > > To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
: > : > > > Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 8:49 AM
: > : > > > Subject: RE: partition help
: > : > > >
: > : > > >
: > : > > > > Do you have a system that can read the drive?
: > : > > > >
: > : > > > > If it is Fat16 or Fat32 most partition managers should be able
: > : to
: > : > > > > recognize it and deal with it. Take a look at Partition Magic,
: > : its
: > : > > > > pretty good.
: > : > > > >
: > : > > > > However if they can't see it, it probably means the
: partition is
: > : > > > > corrupt.
: > : > > > >
: > : > > > > > -----Original Message-----
: > : > > > > > From: SMR [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
: > : > > > > > Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 5:59 PM
: > : > > > > > To: CF-Community
: > : > > > > > Subject: partition help
: > : > > > > >
: > : > > > > > anyone know how or what I can use to convert a non-dos
: > : partition
: > : > > to a
: > : > > > > > dos/fat partition ?
: > : > > > > >
: > : > > > > >
: > : > > > >
: > : > > >
: > : > >
: > : >
: > : >
: > :
: > :
: >
:
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