[ale] Help. Sudden disappearance of Logical drives in Ext.Partition.

[Calvin Harrigan]

You know, it sounds like your drive overlay program is corrupt.  Did you
install some software on your machine when you first installed your 75
gig drive?  Only reason I'm saying so is because you say the drive only
shows 8 gigs in fdisk, a classic bios limitation.  Just a suggestion.


Calvin...



On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 13:59, Joe Story wrote:
> Thanks for the reply.  I am downloading some drve testing software from IBM
> now.  As far as mounting the partition, I don't think that is possible b/c
> it is shown as just an ext partition with no logical drives inside of it.
> 
> 
> Joe-
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Jim Philips <jcphil at mindspring.com>
> To: <ale at ale.org>; Joe Story <joestory at bellsouth.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 9:45 PM
> Subject: Re: [ale] Help. Sudden disappearance of Logical drives in Ext.
> Partition.
> 
> 
> > On Tuesday 26 November 2002 08:48 am, Joe Story wrote:
> > > Hey all.  Anyone know if there is a way to recover from this.  Any info
> > > greatly appreciated.  This machine dual boots Win98 and Slackware 8.  I
> was
> > > in windows and I noticed that my  D: drive (FAT32, Logical drive inside
> ext
> > > partition on IBM 75gig deskstar)  was showing jibberish ie, dfa___dfae!!
> > > (random chars.)  on the label and in the filenames.  Could not open any
> > > folders within that drive. The error message was something like "could
> not
> > > locate...."  Suddenly after that my machine locked up. Not surprising.
> > > After rebooting, the EXT. partition still existed but no drives inside
> that
> > > were there.  I also noticed that dos's fdisk was only showing that drive
> as
> > > 8gig.
> > >
> > > Can anyone tell me what might have happened or give me some possible
> ways
> > > to ?rebuild? the logical drive so that I can recover the data there.
> I'm
> > > mostly curious as to what could have done this.  If I can't recover I
> will
> > > just have to start over on the 15+gigs of mp3's I had on that drive.
> >
> > Sounds like a corrupted hard drive. Can you mount the partition where your
> > MP3's are located? If so, I would get them out of there as soon as
> possible.
> > See if IBM has a diagnostic program for this hard drive and scan it for
> > problems. I'm almost positiver they have something like this. They have
> one
> > for my IBM hard drive.
> >
> 
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