It's an old maxtor drive. This drive mounts automatically when I start lindows, as it turns out. Everything seems to be fine. If I were to use dd, which options would write the whole drive contents to a new drive? Would windows boot from the new drive?
Joel On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 07:19:58AM -0700, Net Llama! wrote: > dd is your best bet for cloning a drive exactly. tar would prolly work > in a pinch. Can you mount the NTFS patition under linux? Can you read > its contents? Are there any errors when you do that? In many cases, > you shouldn't need any fancy vendor utilities to deterine that the drive > is fscked. What kind of drive is this? > > On 07/03/03 21:01, Joel Hammer wrote: > > > I dual boot a lindows computer and XP Pro. > > > > Suddenly (in fact, after running the lindows 4.0 demo cdrom), XP pro loads > > and runs VERY slowly. The only other symptom is the fact the hard drive > > light, instead of flickering when it starts up, stays continuously red. > > > > XP has the HPFS/NTFS file system. > > > > My suspicion is that the hard drive, which is an old cast off, is > > the problem. Are there any tools in linux I could use to check out > > this drive? > > > > Are there any easy ways just to clone the "failing" hard drive. > > > > Thanks, > > -- > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > L. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo: http://netllama.ipfox.com > > 7:15am up 5 days, 15:40, 1 user, load average: 0.19, 0.16, 0.07 > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
