My hard drive died, funeral next week

August 3, 2005 Posted by mitch | technology | 0 Comments

It finally kicked the bucket... I've had a Western Digital SATA 120GB drive since I built my current home computer... and I've have a few problems with it. As you would see from a couple months ago, I lost everything on my home partion once, and I've had corruption problems on my root partion a couple times before that... This time it just died completly. While I was using my computer last night, the OS froze. Everything, it was hard locked. I powered it off and let it sit for a bit... and then booted it up to a restore disk and ran an fsck on all of the partions, all of which came back ok after a journal recovery. Rebooted... still having problems finding files on the drive. I thought this was just like any of the other times where a format and reinstall would fix it. I was wrong.... After I reinstalled Fedora Core 4, I brought it back up and started doing updates (without logging into the gui), and let it go over night. I woke up to find the console spewing out ATA Seek errors. From experience this tells me the drive is done. Its not completly dead but the drive heads are messed. So I'm going to take it back to my parents where I can hook it up to my brothers box(since he has SATA and enough drive space to spare) and copy over as much of my home partion as possible. I'll let you all know how it goes.

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