Hello, My wife asked me to re-install her Windows partition and in the process both PATA drives on her desktop (including both Windows and Ubunutu) started to give weird errors and can't be accessed any more.
I tried using sysrescuecd 1.0 and the ubuntu cd in rescue mode but all give similar errors, on both drives. Since it seems highly unlikely to me that both drives became bad at exactly the same time (they have a few years difference in their age, different make, model and size) I suspect that the problem is with the motherboard or ATA controller. My own desktop is about 18 months old and I don't see mention of PATA controllers in its lshw or lspci output. Does anyone know where can I borrow (or maybe rent?) a PATA->usb box to allow me to access the disks and salvage the data from them? (and before anyone tells me again - we bought a USB drive this weekend together with a Windows Vista laptop and will start following Marry's advise to back things up). Thanks, --Amos -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
