HD problems after power outage
Matthew Seaman
m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk
Sun Jan 4 14:08:54 PST 2004
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 03:36:21PM -0600, backdoc wrote:
> I lost power at my house for a moment this morning which is causing some
> problems with my second hard drive.
[ fsck tale of woe...]
> I try to rerun fsck, but this pattern only repeats. Is there a way to
> fix this?? Or, am I toast?
Toasted to a nice golden brown on both sides. You've had a head crash
on that second drive, which has created a scratch right across a
number of disk sectors. Time to chuck that disk in the bin and
restore your backups[1] onto a new one.
Cheers,
Matthew
[1] You *do* have backups, don't you?
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