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Steve Watford schrieb: | Thanks, | I'll give dd a try for backup puposes. I have already tried to fsck | the | partition it just comes back with a short read error. Asking if it is | a zero
always be careful to check an already damaged disk:
| Steve Watford schrieb:
| | hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
| | hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=90895772,being not a professional but a normal user i think this really looks like some hw issues. so i'd suggest better to copy (dd) all the data from the disk, as long as you have time to. every additional use of the disk may cause its final death.
i wonder why your other partitions *seem* to still be ok (e.g. "mount" and using its data then succeeds)...
Christian.
PS: sorry for contacting you directly, Steve, without cc-ing to the list...my fault. - -- BOFH excuse #406:
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