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#1 2008-08-31 22:08:44
- floke
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[SOLVED] Have I killed my hard drive?
Hmmm....
I was trying to resize/repartition my external hard drive with gparted when it appeared to hang on the 'moving partition' section (I have had hangs with gparted on this drive before) - the disc was still spinning and the power light was on, but no activity on the hard drive. After about 20 mins of this I cancelled the operation and now the disc seems toasted. Any attempt to mount or access any info on the drive (with gparted, fdisk, fsck, mkfs, pmount, mount) just results in the same thing - a spinning disc but no activity, and the thing just sits there.
Is it dead? Or is there anything I can do to rescue it now?
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#2 2008-08-31 22:11:08
- SiC
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Re: [SOLVED] Have I killed my hard drive?
You've probably lost the data, but the drive is likely to be just fine. Just fire up cfdisk and wipe all the partitions and recreate them. Failing that if you have any recovery software you might be able to use that to recover the lost partitions.
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#3 2008-08-31 22:20:19
- floke
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Re: [SOLVED] Have I killed my hard drive?
Thanks for the reply - I'm reformatting as NTFS in XP as I write, and will then reconvert to ext3.
Phew (apart from the data, but was backup only anyway)
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#4 2008-08-31 23:09:22
- floke
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Re: [SOLVED] Have I killed my hard drive?
Hmmm again.
Formatted as NTFS and works fine in XP - but nothing at all in Arch - exactly as if nothing had happened!
** EDIT: And cfdisk also hangs ... **
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#5 2008-09-01 00:10:14
- pyther
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Re: [SOLVED] Have I killed my hard drive?
Maybe you should run one of those hard disk tools.
If you go to the website of your hard disk manufacture, they probably have a boot utility to check the drive. Run that and see what it reports. Sounds like you might have a faulty drive.
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