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RE: [PLUG] Fixing Corrupt Sectors on ext2
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It appears as though the problem wasn't as bad as I had thought. I ran an
IBM utility and it looks like there is absolutly nothing wrong with either
the disk or the mechanics on it. There was only some data corruption (and
fdisk -c found nearly everything that was missing and attached it to
lost+found - now all I have to do is sort through that and find what is
what).
But, thanks for all of the ideas.
I do have one more question for the group --- after this experience, would
you stop using the drive, or is it probably still good. Since it is
working, I must cancel the RMA on it as it does not appear to be defective.
I don't want to have to replace it (as this costs money), but will if I
must.
thanks
-b
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From: Martin DiViaio
To: Bradley Molnar
Sent: 6/10/03 18:35
Subject: Re: [PLUG] Fixing Corrupt Sectors on ext2
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I'm told that you can put the drive in the freezer overnight and that
might allow you to get some more data off of it. Don't know. It didn't
work for me the one time I tried it. Good luck.
Drive Savers is another (but expensive) option.
On the 8th day of June in the year 2003 you wrote:
> Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2003 23:38:19 -0400
> From: Bradley Molnar <brad-current@litech.org>
> To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org
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> Subject: [PLUG] Fixing Corrupt Sectors on ext2
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> well, here's another question for the group.
>
> today, a disk (IBM 41GB drive) decided to stop working. i'm not
totally
> sure if the head crashed (i think it might have as the bios didn't
recognise
> the disk being attached at one point, i was able to free the head to
try to
> get some data back* but only got about half of it). I ran the IBM
[Hitachi]
> utility that said that there were corrupt sectors. The drive is
formatted
> ext2. What is the easiest way to tell the computer to either ignore
these
> errors or fix them, or whatever, so I can try to get some of the rest
of the
> data off of it.
>
> It is actually still under warantee, and I have an RMA on it, I just
want to
> try to get as much stuff off of it before I ship it back.
>
> thanks
> -b
>
> * - the way this was done was by twisting the drive with the center of
> rotation being the center of where the drive spins. A horrible,
horrible
> thing to do to the drive, I know, but, right after I did this the
computer
> recognised it and it booted and I was able to copy about 25 of the 35
GB in
> use on the drive to an 80GB drive that was already in the machine.
>
>
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