My wifes lap suddenly refused to boot cleanly and a diagnosis with Redo confirmed the obvious; there are bad sectors on the / partition of that disk.
REDO is recommending a re-partitioning.
So how do we best do that without loosing data?
(I am making a total backup of that box now)
Oops! bad sectors on harddisk Topic is solved
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Oops! bad sectors on harddisk
Manjaro 64bit on the main box -Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 920 @ 2.67GHz and nVidia Corporation GT200b [GeForce GTX 275] (rev a1. + Centos on the server - Arch on the laptop.
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Re: Opps! bad sectors on harddisk
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1985816
and much more at google
Testdisk is on the systemrescuecd and that might help you copy off some or all of the data.
and much more at google
Testdisk is on the systemrescuecd and that might help you copy off some or all of the data.
Re: Opps! bad sectors on harddisk
Thanks. I am actually using gparted in System rescue CD now sow we can only pray. Backups I have but it is a pain to set up Arch from scratch these days so I hope the data will survive.
The boot sector is fine and even plymouth works before the protesting and IO errors start...
I see a "doing it the hard way" in my future
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GRR I am an absolute idiot - I had taken the lap to the boys room and forgot about the power supply - so it stopped in the middle of partitioning
Not much hope of saving those data now...
The boot sector is fine and even plymouth works before the protesting and IO errors start...
I see a "doing it the hard way" in my future
....
GRR I am an absolute idiot - I had taken the lap to the boys room and forgot about the power supply - so it stopped in the middle of partitioning
Not much hope of saving those data now...
Manjaro 64bit on the main box -Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 920 @ 2.67GHz and nVidia Corporation GT200b [GeForce GTX 275] (rev a1. + Centos on the server - Arch on the laptop.
"There are no stupid questions - Only stupid answers!"
"There are no stupid questions - Only stupid answers!"
Re: Opps! bad sectors on harddisk
Try testdisk or photorec. testdisk can reset the partition table to a previous configuration, so you can see files before the format...
Re: Opps! bad sectors on harddisk [SOLVED] Topic is solved
Oh wonder!
I checked the box with the REDO disk first. And the recomendtation was to re-partition. Then I booted the System rescue CD according to Guru-Berserk orders and reduced my Home partition (sda4) and streched the / partiton (sda3). Swap and boot partition were OK so I left them allone.
Sda3 was the fubared one.
I loaded the system rescue cd to memory - not the default start option - and eventually fired up gparted.
Then I ellegantly managed to interrupt my re-partitioning by letting the batery run out So I started all over again and rezizing the two partitions again, Gparted used most of the night to run and fix my errors.
It came through with a success message so I removed the CD and booted...
And it is all there as if nothing happened
I checked the box with the REDO disk first. And the recomendtation was to re-partition. Then I booted the System rescue CD according to Guru-Berserk orders and reduced my Home partition (sda4) and streched the / partiton (sda3). Swap and boot partition were OK so I left them allone.
Sda3 was the fubared one.
I loaded the system rescue cd to memory - not the default start option - and eventually fired up gparted.
Then I ellegantly managed to interrupt my re-partitioning by letting the batery run out So I started all over again and rezizing the two partitions again, Gparted used most of the night to run and fix my errors.
It came through with a success message so I removed the CD and booted...
And it is all there as if nothing happened
Manjaro 64bit on the main box -Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 920 @ 2.67GHz and nVidia Corporation GT200b [GeForce GTX 275] (rev a1. + Centos on the server - Arch on the laptop.
"There are no stupid questions - Only stupid answers!"
"There are no stupid questions - Only stupid answers!"
Re: Oops! bad sectors on harddisk [SOLVED]
REDO looks like a very good implementation of backup and disaster recovery tools. I have an external firewire-connected enclosure where I rsync the personal files I would really not like to lose on a "when the spirit moves me" schedule. The disk is powered off most of the time.
I'm curious about network shares, as I've never done that. Presumably, a networked drive could be used for backing up an image and restoring from it. However, doesn't the share need to be connected to a running OS? If that's the OS you're trying to restore and you can't boot it, how does REDO use it?
I'm curious about network shares, as I've never done that. Presumably, a networked drive could be used for backing up an image and restoring from it. However, doesn't the share need to be connected to a running OS? If that's the OS you're trying to restore and you can't boot it, how does REDO use it?
Re: Oops! bad sectors on harddisk [SOLVED]
I have Only used REDO with the USB-disk directly connected to it. I have some boxes that simply do freeze completely when networkmanager starts so I do not want to complicate that with network settings - so
It is a Linux distro.
What I can say is that I have backed up and put back my Heavy duty Mandriva box with Windows on it - twice. No problem whatsoever.
It is a Linux distro.
What I can say is that I have backed up and put back my Heavy duty Mandriva box with Windows on it - twice. No problem whatsoever.
Manjaro 64bit on the main box -Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 920 @ 2.67GHz and nVidia Corporation GT200b [GeForce GTX 275] (rev a1. + Centos on the server - Arch on the laptop.
"There are no stupid questions - Only stupid answers!"
"There are no stupid questions - Only stupid answers!"