[Wolves] Hard drive failure

[Gary]

Things I would do,

Use guessfstype to make sure its ext3,
Disable SMART in your BIOS,

Mount it read only and try e2fsck ?

Try the tools on http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/

Sorry, I can't be of any further help.

Gary

 

-----Original Message-----
From: wolves-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk
[mailto:wolves-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Kevanf1
Sent: 06 January 2005 15:35
To: Wolverhampton Linux User Group
Subject: Re: [Wolves] Hard drive failure

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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