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Corrupted HDD?
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here's what I have,
1Ghz AMD Athlon
10GB HDD - primary master - FAT32
40GB HDD - primary slave - FAT32
Windows 2000 Pro
the problem:
It just happened, probably by a virus of some sort... my slave drive suddenly disappeared, there's this unknown device that show's up on the device manager. I deleted the unknown device and the slave drive reappeared. It worked for a week or so, then it went kaput. the computer can detect the HDD but it won't show up on windows. I tried booting it using a win98 bootdisk, still won't show up. I used fdisk and it shows that my slave drive has 4 partitions, but in fact it only had 1, it shows 100% non-dos, 10% non-dos, 10% non-dos, 10% non-dos. You see, i don't think it's possible to have a hard drive that can be partitioned up to 130% of it's capacity...
I don't want to reformat yet, I have very important files in the slave drive. I'm still hoping i can find a solution to reverse all of these crap... anybody???
1Ghz AMD Athlon
10GB HDD - primary master - FAT32
40GB HDD - primary slave - FAT32
Windows 2000 Pro
the problem:
It just happened, probably by a virus of some sort... my slave drive suddenly disappeared, there's this unknown device that show's up on the device manager. I deleted the unknown device and the slave drive reappeared. It worked for a week or so, then it went kaput. the computer can detect the HDD but it won't show up on windows. I tried booting it using a win98 bootdisk, still won't show up. I used fdisk and it shows that my slave drive has 4 partitions, but in fact it only had 1, it shows 100% non-dos, 10% non-dos, 10% non-dos, 10% non-dos. You see, i don't think it's possible to have a hard drive that can be partitioned up to 130% of it's capacity...
I don't want to reformat yet, I have very important files in the slave drive. I'm still hoping i can find a solution to reverse all of these crap... anybody???
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*And no God nor Man can control where you roam.. no *
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*I am the oceans.. Still, still yet always in constant *
*motion.Quiet but never afraid,Silent but always awake*
*And no God nor Man can control where you roam.. no *
*boundaries cast forever you last.... *
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can the bios detect it? (hold delete while starting the computer then enter standard bios to see if it sees both drives). if bios detects it, the drive itself is probably ok.
have you tried just moving the slave drive to another computer? should be plug and play. most likely, whatever is messing with it is on your main drive and another computer won't have the problem, so you can retrieve files from it.
have you tried just moving the slave drive to another computer? should be plug and play. most likely, whatever is messing with it is on your main drive and another computer won't have the problem, so you can retrieve files from it.
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Originally Posted by tommi
can the bios detect it? (hold delete while starting the computer then enter standard bios to see if it sees both drives). if bios detects it, the drive itself is probably ok.
have you tried just moving the slave drive to another computer? should be plug and play. most likely, whatever is messing with it is on your main drive and another computer won't have the problem, so you can retrieve files from it.
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*I am the oceans.. Still, still yet always in constant *
*motion.Quiet but never afraid,Silent but always awake*
*And no God nor Man can control where you roam.. no *
*boundaries cast forever you last.... *
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*I am the oceans.. Still, still yet always in constant *
*motion.Quiet but never afraid,Silent but always awake*
*And no God nor Man can control where you roam.. no *
*boundaries cast forever you last.... *
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One of my clients' drives recently went south in that sort of way. No Windows-based solutions would let me access the drive in any way, even in two of my Windows machines.
The only way I was able to salvage her data and save the drive was by putting it one of my Linux boxen. From there I was finally able to mount the partition and copy her data to one of my drives. I also had to use Linux's version of fdisk to write a new, blank DOS partition table to the drive before Windows would let me reinstall.
One wrinkle after that was that because the drive was formatted as NTFS I could not simply copy her data from my Linux drive back to her drive due to Linux's lack of full write support for NTFS. The solution was simple though; I just put the drive back in her machine, slapped the machine on my network, and mounted her drive as an smb mount on my Linux box. Voila-instant network file copy!
The only way I was able to salvage her data and save the drive was by putting it one of my Linux boxen. From there I was finally able to mount the partition and copy her data to one of my drives. I also had to use Linux's version of fdisk to write a new, blank DOS partition table to the drive before Windows would let me reinstall.
One wrinkle after that was that because the drive was formatted as NTFS I could not simply copy her data from my Linux drive back to her drive due to Linux's lack of full write support for NTFS. The solution was simple though; I just put the drive back in her machine, slapped the machine on my network, and mounted her drive as an smb mount on my Linux box. Voila-instant network file copy!
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Thanks DMR, I"ll try that... as soon as i install linux... I'm planning on installing linux anyway. but it may take a while before i can do that though... what linux do you have??
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*I am the oceans.. Still, still yet always in constant *
*motion.Quiet but never afraid,Silent but always awake*
*And no God nor Man can control where you roam.. no *
*boundaries cast forever you last.... *
*=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=*
*I am the oceans.. Still, still yet always in constant *
*motion.Quiet but never afraid,Silent but always awake*
*And no God nor Man can control where you roam.. no *
*boundaries cast forever you last.... *
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Currently RH 7.3, RH 9.0, and Mandy 8.0.
(But who knows- that could change tomorrow... :mrgreen: )
BTW: If you install Linux on a system which already runs some version of Windows, it's a good idea to make a separate FAT32-formatted partition for data storage. Since both Linux and Windows can read and write to FAT32, you'll have full access to the data stored on that partition from both OSes.
(But who knows- that could change tomorrow... :mrgreen: )
BTW: If you install Linux on a system which already runs some version of Windows, it's a good idea to make a separate FAT32-formatted partition for data storage. Since both Linux and Windows can read and write to FAT32, you'll have full access to the data stored on that partition from both OSes.
"May the Wombat of Happiness snuffle through your underbrush."
- Ancient Aborigine blessing
Please do not contact me by email or PM for help. We're all volunteers here, and only have so much free time to dedicate to our efforts.
However, if I've been working on a thread with you already, and seem to have "forgotten" your thread, please do send me a message. I try not to let things slip through the cracks, but it does happen sometimes.
- Ancient Aborigine blessing
Please do not contact me by email or PM for help. We're all volunteers here, and only have so much free time to dedicate to our efforts.
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Try this site, the appz are free maybe they can help you.
http://free-backup-software.net/data-recovery.htm
Or this is what I used to restore a corrupted disk. I dont know what happened, but my system would not recognize my drive as an NTFS. So I use this app and got very lucky. (http://www.ontrack.com/easyrecoverydatarecovery/)
http://free-backup-software.net/data-recovery.htm
Or this is what I used to restore a corrupted disk. I dont know what happened, but my system would not recognize my drive as an NTFS. So I use this app and got very lucky. (http://www.ontrack.com/easyrecoverydatarecovery/)
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish. - Albert Einstein
How much space does RH9 need for installation? will 5Gigs of disk space do? i was thinking of repartitioning my 10G HDD into 2 5Gigs, one for windows and the other for linux... any suggestions?
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*I am the oceans.. Still, still yet always in constant *
*motion.Quiet but never afraid,Silent but always awake*
*And no God nor Man can control where you roam.. no *
*boundaries cast forever you last.... *
*=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=*
*I am the oceans.. Still, still yet always in constant *
*motion.Quiet but never afraid,Silent but always awake*
*And no God nor Man can control where you roam.. no *
*boundaries cast forever you last.... *
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From the horse's mouth
"A personal desktop installation, including a graphical desktop environment, requires at least 1.7GB of free space. Choosing both the GNOME and KDE desktop environments requires at least 1.8GB of free disk space.
A workstation installation, including a graphical desktop environment and software development tools, requires at least 2.1GB of free space. Choosing both the GNOME and KDE desktop environments requires at least 2.2GB of free disk space.
A server installation requires 850MB for a minimal installation without X (the graphical environment), at least 1.5GB of free space if all package groups other than X are installed, and at least 5.0GB to install all packages including the GNOME and KDE desktop environments.
A Custom installation requires 475MB for a minimal installation and at least 5.0GB of free space if every package is selected."
Of course, I think a full installation includes something like 4 Web Browsers, 2 or 3 office/productivity suites, 6 GUI options, 2 Web server apps, 6 text editors, an entire suite of scienticfic tools, an entire suite of programming tools, etc., etc., so you won't really need that much space for a typical install. Do make sure to leave enough breathing room to store your data and programs added post-install though, of course.
By the way- RH 9 is the last "free" version of the official "Red hat Linux"; that line has been spun off into the Fedora Project.
"A personal desktop installation, including a graphical desktop environment, requires at least 1.7GB of free space. Choosing both the GNOME and KDE desktop environments requires at least 1.8GB of free disk space.
A workstation installation, including a graphical desktop environment and software development tools, requires at least 2.1GB of free space. Choosing both the GNOME and KDE desktop environments requires at least 2.2GB of free disk space.
A server installation requires 850MB for a minimal installation without X (the graphical environment), at least 1.5GB of free space if all package groups other than X are installed, and at least 5.0GB to install all packages including the GNOME and KDE desktop environments.
A Custom installation requires 475MB for a minimal installation and at least 5.0GB of free space if every package is selected."
Of course, I think a full installation includes something like 4 Web Browsers, 2 or 3 office/productivity suites, 6 GUI options, 2 Web server apps, 6 text editors, an entire suite of scienticfic tools, an entire suite of programming tools, etc., etc., so you won't really need that much space for a typical install. Do make sure to leave enough breathing room to store your data and programs added post-install though, of course.
By the way- RH 9 is the last "free" version of the official "Red hat Linux"; that line has been spun off into the Fedora Project.
Last edited by DMR; May 25th, 2004 at 10:38 pm.
"May the Wombat of Happiness snuffle through your underbrush."
- Ancient Aborigine blessing
Please do not contact me by email or PM for help. We're all volunteers here, and only have so much free time to dedicate to our efforts.
However, if I've been working on a thread with you already, and seem to have "forgotten" your thread, please do send me a message. I try not to let things slip through the cracks, but it does happen sometimes.
- Ancient Aborigine blessing
Please do not contact me by email or PM for help. We're all volunteers here, and only have so much free time to dedicate to our efforts.
However, if I've been working on a thread with you already, and seem to have "forgotten" your thread, please do send me a message. I try not to let things slip through the cracks, but it does happen sometimes.
ok, so that means 5G of HD space would suffice for RH9. I'll just make it a dual boot PC, I'll install win2k with it so others in my household can still use it.. thanks a plenty, ill give you an update on whether mounting it on a linux box will help...
thanks a plenty, ill give you an update on whether mounting it on a linux box will help... *-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=*
*I am the oceans.. Still, still yet always in constant *
*motion.Quiet but never afraid,Silent but always awake*
*And no God nor Man can control where you roam.. no *
*boundaries cast forever you last.... *
*=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=*
*I am the oceans.. Still, still yet always in constant *
*motion.Quiet but never afraid,Silent but always awake*
*And no God nor Man can control where you roam.. no *
*boundaries cast forever you last.... *
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