Perhaps run smartctl -C /dev/sd<X> -a
to see how long an extended check might take, plan to leave PC on for a little over this time and run an extended test: smartctl -t long /dev/sd<X> monitor status with smartctl -l selftest /dev/sd<X> PS, longest serving disk in my RAID: 61068 hours.... has no pending sectors or re-allocations. On 15/04/18 10:08, PeterMerchant via dorset wrote: > Got it sorted! I used UBCD (Ultimate Boot CD) and it's copy of > Gparted to attempt a recover of the disc, which showed me that it had > been a Windows system. I was then able to format the whole disk as NTFS. > > For some reason it had not wanted to know Ubuntu, but now I was able > to install Fedora 27 (KDE) which is up and running. Yesterday once I > got it into a state where the head was continuously seeking back and > forth (You know that sound when you hear it). > > This morning I was unable to run fsck on it because of something to do > with LVM, but UBCD has a disk test facility that I have run. Yes > there are some faults on the disk, and some parts that are > 'pre-failure', but it shows that it has had 19000 hours of use. > > Conclusion: Success, and the disk will be OK for play, but don't be > surprised if it continues to degrade. > > Cheers, > Peter > > On 05/04/18 19:41, Hamish MB wrote: >> Sounds perplexing... >> >> You could try gparted's create partition table option (in one of the >> menus). >> >> Beyond that, maybe it's better to give up if its being that much of a >> pain - it may just be broken. >> >> Hamish >> >> >> On 05/04/18 17:46, PeterMerchant via dorset wrote: >>> I was given an old Dell with a 250GB MAxtor SATA disk that couldn't be >>> found by the live disks that I tried. Eventually I loaded up a rescue >>> disk and gparted and discovered that the disk had an invalid >>> partition. I was unable to format it as Ext2, 3 or 4, But I did format >>> it as 2 FAT32 partitions and then it was recognised in my other >>> computer. I have tried again to get it to format as Ext-x with no >>> luck. It now does have a swap partition. It didn't like having the >>> jumper in for the CLJ (cylinder Limitation jumper) >>> >>> Any thoughts on how I can possibly resurrect this disk, or should I >>> not waste my time? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Peter >>> >>> > > -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2018-05-01 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread: mailto:[email protected] / CHECK IF YOU'RE REPLYING Reporting bugs well: http://goo.gl/4Xue / TO THE LIST OR THE AUTHOR
