Looking for a solution to disk failure!

05-13-2008	#1 (permalink)
mikejohnson Just Joined! Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 1	Looking for a solution to disk failure! Hi people, I have been using my disk for quite a long time but the other day I heard the drive making some noise and had to restart the system again. But when I did that the disk would not boot and I fear that the data might be deleted or lost. So, if you people have any know about the ways to get this done right or if you can at least suggest me the ways to handle this …it will be a great help.

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devils casper Super Moderator Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Chandigarh, India Posts: 21,081	Hi and Welcome ! You HD is dieing. Boot from any LiveCD. Try to mount partitions and backup data. __________________ It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing. - Gertrude Stein New Users: Read This First

05-13-2008

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daark.child

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Originally Posted by devils casper

Hi and Welcome !

You HD is dieing. Boot from any LiveCD. Try to mount partitions and backup data.

I don't think using just any live cd will do unless it supports BSD filesystems. something like RoFreesbie maybe a better option if the Linux live discs don't suppport UFS.

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