[COLUG] Hard Drive Failure?

[Matt Gardlik]

I believe the hard drive is about 3 years old.  It was a Western Digital
20GB drive.  I went ahead and picked up a 160GB drive from MicroCenter
this evening, and put it in.

I was able to install CentOS with no problems, and then plug in the
second hard drive and mount it without problem.

Right now I am copying scripts and conf files over and getting things
set up again.

I sure am glad that I make backups of things--including configuration
files.  Luckily, I haven't had too much trouble getting things up and
running again, but it could have been much worse.

Thanks for the help, I appreciate it.

Matt

On Tue, 2006-10-17 at 21:25 -0400, Bill Baker wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-10-17 at 17:52 -0400, Matt Gardlik wrote:
> > >Well, I can tell you the first thing I'd do.  And that would be to boot
> > > into Knoppix and run fsck on /dev/hda from there.  If it turns up any
> > > errors, try Googling those errors to see if you can fix them.
> > 
> > That was just the thing I was doing when I saw your email.  The output
> > from fsck says among other things:
> > 
> > fsck.ext3:  Input/Output error while recovering journal of /
> > 
> > I'm pretty sure the hard drive bit the dust.  Guess I'll be taking a
> > quick trip to MicroCenter this evening.
> 
> How old is the drive?  If it's not too old it may just be a corrupt
> partition table or something like that.  Try wiping it and reformatting
> it and then run another test on it.  You may still be able to use it.
> 
> I Googled your error message but came back with nothing, even on Google
> Groups.  Even reducing the search to "Input/Output error" fsck didn't
> seem to return any meaningful results, although I didn't really look
> through them all that thoroughly.
> 
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