On Wed, 2012-02-22 at 11:25 -0500, William Case wrote: > Could also be from physicaly switching two 500g harddrives around? Yes, if you've bashed them about... Another consideration point with a sudden demise of a drive, is to check that the power supply is ok. If you're trying to recover data from a dying disk, I'd suggest that you have it connected to a completely different port than whatever you're trying to save the rescued data to. Some hardware seems to be really bad at doing other things while trying to read from a bad drive. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org