[MLB-WIRELESS] HDD question

[Alfred Shippen]

Does it come up with a shell prompt at all? 

if so you may be able to run fsck
if the superblock is corrupted,, you may be able to get access to a back-up superblock by running

fsck -t ext2 -b 8193 /dev/fubar

This is right out of my  Red Hat 'Unleashed' guide, I have used it before to recover succsessfully from a similar situation.

Failing that you may have to fdisk and reformat!

If you want to re-format the drive you can run fdisk under windows and to remove the master boot record

run fdisk /mbr
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Lincoln Smith 
  To: MelbWireless 
  Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2003 3:15 PM
  Subject: [MLB-WIRELESS] HDD question


  Heya

  I have this 2GB laptop drive that used to be the system disk for my firewall.  One day it got rebooted by accident, and it cracked the @#*@ saying it was missing a superblock, then it just refused to even look at the disk.  Suffice to say it seems to be no longer useable.  No computer or OS will recognise it (although it shows up in the BIOS).  Windows won't look at it while linux hangs on the partition listing during Kernel startup.  That said when i run the IBM disk tool on it (It's an IBM drive) it says the drive is fine.  It reads and writes to it with no problems.  I can even low level format it and zero all the contents, check for bad sectors you name it it works.

  It's got me stumped...Any ideas?

  Cheers
  Lincoln Smith
  dagdamor at optushome.com.au
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