On Monday 20 March 2006 17:08, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Gordon Messmer wrote: > > Anne Wilson wrote: > >> Rebooting didn't help. During bootup it reported > >> > >> I/O error on device hdb, logical block 0. > > > > Well, that probably means that the drive has a bad sector in a very > > unlucky spot. > > > > I'm sure that's no relief to you, but I was worried for a minute that I > > shouldn't use gparted in the future. ;) > > You may be able to get the drive to remap it using the diagnostics > off of the Ultimate Boot CD. If so, you can try testdisk again after > that. It should have gotten remapped automatically, but maybe the > boot sector is treated differently because it contains the partition > table, and is seldom written to... > Well, it looked fairly hopeful, for the partitions that had the more important data on them, so I decided to write the MBR, thinking that I could finish the job in fdisk once it could read that. It couldn't write to sector 0 - so the warning was spot on. The disk had died. I have an identical drive, but I don't think I'll bother putting it in. I thought that they were fairly new, but when I checked back they date to November 2004, and they only had a 1-year guarantee. Thankfully drives with longer guarantees are becoming easier to get again, so I'll order one this evening. It isn't a big issue. I did have all the data backed up, and the whole system is on hda. I can't make the larger /tmp that I was going to, but it probably doesn't matter for a day or two. Anne
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