Hi all,
I am facing a serious problem...
I am having a HDD partition error, only when I am connecting both of my HDDs.
When I boot from floppy and have only one HDD (the one showing error), there is
no problem.
I am sorry to mention that I am having a Windows 98SE installation on my
computer. I apologise for that, but I cant avoid it as my family is only used
to Windows. :(
All these happened this way. (my HW configuration is given at the end of this
mail)
I upgraded my hardware with 128MB RAM and a second hand S3Trio SVGA Card (it
was SiS6215). Before that I had only 32MB of RAM and so I had only 196MB of
swap space reserved on my hard disk. So I desided to repartition my 4.3 GB HDD
(hda) into three partitions
100MB FAT16
300MB Linux Swap
Rest Linux Native (mount point / )
After partitioning I did the Windows 98SE installation and everything went fine
except the horrible restarts (i hate it). Then I put the Debian Woody and
installed the base system, with Lilo on the /dev/hda . Then restarted into the
base system. Then I installed the necessary packages. All went fine. Then I
mounted the second partition on my second HDD, ie. 20GB (hdc), and restored my
back-up of the home directory. When all these were done it was almost 4:15 am.
So shut down the computer and powered off everything.
Next day morning my father turned on the machine and booted into Windows. He
came complaining taht the scandisk was running on the E: drive and that too
very......... slowly. I looked into it and with no other option I just pressed
Ctrl+Alt+Del and rebooted.
I tried to boot into Linux and it was working fine. Then I again rebooted and
booted into Windows with the "Safemode command prompt option" and tried the dir
in every partitions on the 20GB drive. All except the E: drive showed no
problems. E: was showing junk characters. I again booted into Linux and mounted
the partition and there it was all perfect. I traversed through the directories
and files and noticed no problems. I was wondering how it was happening.
Then I shut down the computer and detached the 4.3 GB hdd (that was having no
problems). Then I booted into the system with a MSDOS floppy and tried the dir
on all the partitions and all were fine. Myself was again surprised. Then I
reconnected the 4.3GB drive and repeated the same, and there was the error in
E: drive.
Why is this happening? Can it be fixed without data loss? My family members are
having a lot of data in the Windows drives.
PLEASE HELP ASAP....
regards
dino
KNOPPIX saved me. It helped me to send this mail from myown (crashed) computer.
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My current HW configuration
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Intel Celeron 300A, 128MB RAM, 4.3 GB Segate (as primary master, hda), 20GB
Samsung (as secondary master, hdc), 32X Samsung CDROM Drive (secondary slave,
hdd), Creative Vibra 128 Sound Card, S3 Trio SVGA. Everything on a VIA Apollo
Pro (VT82C691/VT82C586B) Motherboard.
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