HD Corruption issue - I think

[jrlambs]

Our power went out this morning... or rather, it went out, came back on for 2 seconds and went back out again.

When the power was back up for good I turned the computer back on, everything booted up just fine, opened up a share from a windows box and went to copy some files to the computer and BAM, the computer is gone from the network... went to the computer terminal and the system just seems to be locked up...

From there I tried to reboot the computer and it just sat there trying to mount the hard disk for a bit.

I downloaded the Fedora 10 live CD and mounted the disk (Actually a FS Group containing 2 160GB hard Drives).. I can access all the data just fine...

I thought maybe my hard drive was just full, so i deleted some data off the hard drives and rebooted, computer loaded up normally, tried to copy more files and once again, Dead.

Rebooted, computer started back up normally. Hooked up a USB hard drive I use to do backups and ran an rsync script I had written to copy a bunch of stuff from hard drive to the USB backup. The computer got about 50 files in and once again, dead.

I've tried fsk on the Hard drive "Group" when running form the Live CD and it can't find anything wrong with the disks.

any ideas?

Thanks

-Jeff

[rokytnji]

Power Spikes play Havoc with Computer Power Supplies, Ram, and Mobos. I would start out maybe by running Memtest in Fedora. Also maybe if Memtest passes with no errors, run a checkdisk using your Windows. Also you can try unplugging and replugging in cables on power supply to MOBO and cables on the back of Hardrives. I would also unplug any Printers, usb pendrives/external haardrives while troubleshooting. Also another step is unplugging ram sticks and replugging them in to reseat them. Good Luck

[jrlambs]

Will checkdisk work on a drive with a linux filesystem?

[rokytnji]

As far as I know, Windows chkdisk function only checks the partition Windows is on. To check the whole hardrive The Ultimate boot Cd comes with some Hardrive checking tools that checks the WHOLE hardrive.

Ultimate Boot CD - Download the UBCD

[jrlambs]

Thanks, I'll check that out. I think I've narrowed it down to one directory.. or subdirectory that when i try to copy it off the drive the whole thing locks up... It's gotta just be a bad spot on the disk.