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- From: fmg@alpha.smi.med.pitt.edu (Filip Gieszczykiewicz)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: HELP!!! Partition table failure, 200 MB of data at stake...
- Summary: may be hardware problem - if not, ignore this
- Message-ID: <1652@blue.cis.pitt.edu>
- Date: 11 Jan 93 04:16:36 GMT
- Sender: news+@pitt.edu
- Followup-To: comp.os.linux
- Organization: Medical Informatics, Pittsburgh, PA USA
- Lines: 44
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- Thus spoke kfogel@occs.cs.oberlin.edu (Karl Fogel):
- >problem. There are about 200 MB of data at stake here, including some
- [deleted]
- > C: drive failure
- > RUN SETUP UTILITY
- > Press <F1> to RESUME
- [deleted]
- >hardisk I/O error
- >dev 0300, sector 4
- >Unable to read /dev/hda
-
- Greetings. That's the BIOS panicking... Is that an IDE drive?
- If so, check the "controller" for a severe failure - some
- of the systems I fixed had literally BLOWN buffer chips.
-
- If that's not the problem, post the COMPLETE model # of the
- drive and ask if anyone had the same drive that died of a
- MEDIA problem - this will see if maybe the controller on the
- drive is dead.
-
- IF, someone is REAL nice, ask them if they could send you their
- WORKING drive and see if substituting the boards with your
- drive will fix the problem. The only 2 bad things that this
- will/may do is:
-
- 1) Void the person's warranty
- 2) Blow his board (arghh...)
-
- If that does NOT work, call up a CREDIBLE hard drive recovery
- company (look in Computer Shopper) and ASK for an estimate.
- Consider that you may spend AS MUCH for the recovery as paying
- for someone else'es blown drive (#2 above).
-
- While doing all of the above - pray.
-
- Take care.
-
- P.S. Ask that angel to back up HIS/HER data before letting you
- do brain surgery on their drive :-)
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