HD crash: Unable to read partition table

[Georgatos Vaggelis]

On Tue, 2002-06-11 at 17:26, Alex Papadopoulos wrote:
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> Xairetw()
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> Klatare enas diskos sth douleia (Seagate 10arhs - ST310212A) kai epeidh 
> eixe mesa shmantika data prospa8w me kapoio tropo na ton diabasw. Ena 
> mount ro na mporousa na kanw, 8a htan apsogo!
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> ALLA: Exei ntfs.
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> Otan ton bazw se ena linux box, to dmesg leei ta ekshs:
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> (snipped mono ta sxetika kommatia)
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> hdb: ST310212A, ATA DISK drive
> hdb: 20005650 sectors (10243 MB) w/512KiB Cache, CHS=2480/128/63, (U)DMA
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> Partition check:
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> hdb:hdb: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hdb: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=1, sector=0
> end_request: I/O error, dev 03:40 (hdb), sector 0
>  unable to read partition table
Vasika opws 8a prepei na sou exoun pei eidi afta den einai software error messages
Hardware derived pou simenei: eite mihanismo.. eitai plaketa... 
Arra den 8a kanei douleia to apla na kaneis overwrite to Partition Table
(an den mporeis na to diavaseis...)
Ara kataligoume stin arxi tou simpantos:
ALWAYS BACKUP YOUR IMPORTANT DATA!!!
O monos tropos na ton swseis einai na do8oun ekeina ta 1000 dolaria h na
mpeis esi stin diadikasia tou vrisko allo idio disko kai kano ton Mr
Scotty 
 
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> To fdisk profanws den mporei na ton diabasei ka8olou... kai rwtw: 
> Yparxei kapoia patenta wste na ginei overwrite to partition table me 
> kati arbitrary wste na exw mia eykairia na diabasw ta data?
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> <rant>
> Sou xtypaei enas diskos kai den mporeis na diabaseis tipota apo ta data 
> sou.
> 
> Petas ena disko me top secret stoixeia apo to Empire State Building kai 
> o ex8ros sou paei kai mazeyei ta kommatia tou kai diabazei ta panta... 
> kati den paei kala se ayton ton kosmo
> </rant>
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OXI Apla 3erei poten na plirwsei...
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