[Wolves] Hard drive failure

[Kevanf1]

On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 14:28:01 -0000, Wayne Morris <wayne at machx.co.uk> wrote:
>  
> Anyone help me out with this one. 
>   
> Maxtor 40 gb drive was mounted as a storage drive in a Fedora core system. 
> On a reboot it came up with 'SMART error back up and replace'' 
> At this point it still mounted but most directories were missing, but
> kdiskfree show the correct used amount. 
> Now it won't mount at all, but is detectable by the bios , hdparm reports
> correct parameters. 
> Mount reports input/output error. 
> mount -t ext3 gives 'wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock or too many
> mounted file systems' 
>   
> Any other tools to rescue this or is it ferked? 
>   
> Cheers 
>   
> Wayne  
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> 
I'd try the Maxtor site.  They will probably have some tools
available.  When a Hard Drive is formatted at the factory there are
always a number of 'hidden' blocks spare.  They can be brought into
play in this sort of scenario.  Well, that's what I was told by the
Seagate guys :-)))

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