WauloK wrote:
Hi.
My Mandrake PC won't boot any more. It has a 120Gb HDD and a 200Gb HDD
(so they are not old).
A few days ago my PC died. I rebooted and it came back up for about 10
minutes and stopped again.
I rebooted once more and saw on the monitor that ReiserFS seems to think
the HDD is dead. It says if the HDD has bad sectors it should be
replaced. It's tried fsck'ing the HDD but to no avail and as a last
resort gives me the option to drop to a shell and try to fix it myself.
IIRC it has 10.1 on it.
I thought I could at least recover the data with my XP machine but the
ReiserFS driver for XP seems to Blue Screen of Death XP machines.
At the end of trying to boot ReiserFS says [FAILED].
I tried taking the HDDs out and putting them into an identical PC but I
got the same errors.
Have I lost my HDD and data?
The first thing I would do is go to http://www.ultimatebootcd.com,
download the CD image, and boot with it. Run the proper tests program
for your brand of hard drive, and see what it has to say. You may want
to test the drives one at a time, in case the electronics of one drive
are messing up the results for both drives. If the test program says the
drives are bad, you can try the recovery options. It MAY help, or it may
wipe out everything.
Once you know if the hardware is working, then you can make better
decessions about what to try to recover the data. (If both drives fail
the hardware test, chances are you have other problems with the machine
they were in!)
Mikkel
--
Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons,
for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
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