I have several removable data backup drives that I swap over when I get
around to it. One had given some smart errors when last used, I returned
it to use a few weeks ago and it failed to be accessible 2 days ago.
Rebooting and the machine would not reboot. replacing the drive with the
other data backup and the machine booted happily. All the operating
system and /boot are on the disc that was not touched.
It may just be one drive that has failed, and the bios gave an error on
accessing one of the disks and would not progress beyound that.
I have a usb PATA drive box that you can borrow.I am in Newtown and
commute to Campsie or the city on different days.
cheers
Ken
Amos Shapira wrote:
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
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