Today, an unsuspecting user arrived at #computers on IRC with a complaint about a dead disk. Linux to the rescue was what we said immediately ! We made the individual download Ubuntu (sshhh…). Two hours later the download was fixed and we were working on the problem.
Point 1: The drive was behaving oddly. We demanded that ubuntu be booted into and /dev/sda be mounted. How?
sudo mkdir /media/ext_dev ; sudo mount -t ntfs /dev/sda /media/ext_dev
Didn’t work.
We then asked him to use the command:
dmesg | grep /dev/sda
He says its spat out a lot of errors. I was thinking, fs error for sure. The command I told him to use:
sudo ntfsfix /dev/sda
Four vital hours later, (must be one large drive :) , done).
It worked !
Phew, now I can get back to reading the posts on comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage :)
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