On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 22:44 -0700, Roy W. Erickson wrote: > All: > > My computer fell over hitting the floor with a pretty good thud, while > up and running. The screen froze along with the mouse and keyboard. > > It broke the CD-RW, but the machine booted anyway. I was very suspicious > about its integrity so I ran this: > > dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/null conv=noerror > > Sure enough I get "Input/Output errors" on certain segments of the HD > > What can I do to try to patch over these segments? ---- boot rescue disk e2fsck -cf /dev/hdX# substitute the proper drive letter for X and the proper partition number for # suggest that you replace the hard drive Craig
