What makes you so sure that the HD is bad? Can you put it into a different box and mount any of the partitions?
On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Rick Sivernell wrote: > list > > My laptop system has gone down while I was using it. When I tried to get it to > reboot, it stuck in grub. I used the gentoo live cd to boot from a cdrom and that > was successfull. when I tried to mount the /dev/hda3 to root system I got 5 lines > of errors, seek could not find & etc. I install a 860 meg hd into the system and > dos boots right on up and I can play a dos card game. It sounds as if the hd that > I was using, the original one, has gone bad. I did take it back to the Dell > refurb center where I bought it, after a week they charged me $76 to diagnose > that the mobo was bad. They want $175 or that and a install charge of $50. I > checked around and find the mobo's cost $125 - $130. Guess they see people as > idots whom they can fleece. Not me. Guess I will go look for a new hd for my > laptop. > > cheers > > > -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo http://netllama.ipfox.com _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
