So I tried the "adventurous" way, and it wasn't working for me. After a little bit of searching online I decided that i would try to run 'fsck' to try and repair some stuff. It has worked temporarily for me. I pretty much have no idea what I did, since I'm not all that tech savvy, and I may have messed something up, but it's worked long enough for me to get all of my important stuff off the computer (even though all of my text is showing up as little boxes). I think it may be about time for me to learn a bit more about the OS that I've been running for the past couple years. Thanks to everyone who replied to my question. Kevin D. Wright Michigan Technological University Mechanical Engineering Undergraduate LCpl United States Marine Corps Reserves (906)281-0523 1301 Ruby Ave Houghton, MI 49931 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jon DeVree" <nuxi@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Kevin Wright" <kdwright@xxxxxxx> Cc: lug-l@xxxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, June 8, 2010 10:43:07 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: Linux Problems On Tue, Jun 08, 2010 at 15:31:47 -0400, Kevin Wright wrote: > It's actually more hard disk related. It's detecting bad sectors and > it won't mount my filesystem. Then you're probably screwed already... > I'm hoping to be able to still recover a couple things that I have on > there before having to either reformat or buy a new hard drive. > Any help you can direct me towards would be greatly appreciated. > ... but if you're feeling adventurous! There is a chance the bad sectors only impact the first superblock of the filesystem. Try booting a live CD and running mkdir /foo mount -t ext2 -o sb=8193 /dev/sdNN /foo Where sdNN is the partition that is affected, probably sda1. The 8193 is probably the right location for the backup superblock, but I could be wrong. I usually don't bother trying to recover dying drives. You'll want to *IMMEDIATELY* back up as much data as possible. Then you can download something like SeaTools (it works for all hard drives, not just seagate drives) and test the drive. http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/support/downloads/seatools Go for the "SeaTools for DOS" version, its the bootable CD-ROM. -- Jon X(7): A program for managing terminal windows. See also screen(1).
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