On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 07:32:47AM -0500, Jeremiah Benham wrote: > I had the exact same problems the other day. One of my problems appeared to be a > curropt partition table. I thought I was experiencing hard drive > failure. I don't think it booted from a knoppix disk unless I removed my hard > drive for some reason. I later bought a new drive and installed debian > on it and then installed my old drive. I booted from the new disk and > was able to mount /dev/hdb6 my old home partition. I extreacted it from > there. I later repartitioned/reformated the entire disk with the mke2fs -c -c option > to find out that it did not report any bad blocks at all. Yeah but > accessing the drive with the corrupt partition table would make linux > crash. Bad RAM can misleadingly look like disk problems. Happened to me once. -- Paul Winkler http://www.slinkp.com
