[Leaplist] fixing a hard dive?

[Phil Barnett]

On Wednesday 05 March 2008 07:39:05 pm Andy Lino wrote:
> opinion from the group; Will this help?Do you have a liveCD that has a
> commandline with fsck available?Then just run it from there. # fsck -f -y
> /dev/<whatpartitionbugsyou>.You may need "fdisk -l" to get the listing of
> your partitions beforehand.I hope this might help.Andy LinoThe program said
> "Requires Windows 98 or better to run properly." So I installed Linux.
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While this might get the drive out of it's immediate corner, it also risks 
killing it completely.

Best thing is to get the data off the drive while it's still readable and 
BEFORE you start messing with it using any method of fix up.

And, fsck will only map current bad sectors inactive. The  drive will continue 
to fail.

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