[Watford] Thursday 5th March Meeting

[Alain Williams]

On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 07:04:50PM -0000, Walt wrote:
> Should be able to.  Is it NTFS or a Linux EXTn file system?   If the disk
> spins up ok and the heads are not damaged recovery should be possible.

The machine was running MS-XP. I kind of worked y/day, booting a Linux rescue disk
until (I suppose) too much memory was used when it died with a kernel backtrace.
I was able to see the disk with fdisk.
It failed a memory test.
Today fails to even start.

So: I think that the disk is fine, I need something with an ATA-5 interface
that I can plug into.

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