[ale] hard drive won't mount

James P. Kinney III jkinney at localnetsolutions.com
Thu Jun 20 10:45:23 EDT 2002


You need a new hard drive. When fsck errors out like that, the hard
drive is returning bad signals from the electronics. The actual platters
may be intact, and the data intact as well, but the control circuitry is
fried.

By a new hard drive. There are data recovery places that can mount your
old platters on their stuff and extract an image of what is on the
drive. 

On Thu, 2002-06-20 at 10:26, Jim wrote:
> I already had some file system problems and now things have gotten much 
> worse. Whenever I try to boot up to Linux, it wants to run fsck. But if 
> I let fsck run, it won't complete but exits with a "Signal 7". I can use 
> Tom's Root/Boot disk, but it can't mount the hard drive either. And of 
> course if I try to run fsck from there, it also errors out. Do I have 
> any options left? This is a RedHat 7.2 distro.
> 
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