quick question, can you tell us what happened recently to the computer? Power outage or did somebody unplug while the computer was on?
the first thing that I would do is run fsck to see the integrity of the drive. not being in front of your computer, it's hard to say exactly what options I'd use, but in general I would read up on fsck (filesystem integrity check) by typing man fsck PLEASE READ ENTIRE SECTION BEFORE DOING examples of fsck: fsck -A (check all filesytems) fsck /dev/sdb1 (check the sdb1 partition) You can ask fsck to repair damage that it sees by using the -y PLEASE NOTE, do NOT run fsck on mounted drives RECOMMEND reading up on fsck before running by typing man fsck mj/v On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 6:50 PM, Robert Merrill <[email protected]> wrote: > Would Spinrite work on this? Probably worth a shot if the data is > valuable? #notAnExpert > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
