From: Ram on 16 May 2007 14:50 houghi wrote: > Ram wrote: >> houghi wrote: >>> Ram wrote: >>>> Give testdisk a try. >>> root(a)penne : testdisk >>> -bash: testdisk: command not found >>> >>> and neither YaST nor pin has it. >>> >>> houghi >> Correct if you have not installed it. >> >> Wasn't feeling to well last night so here you go. >> >> http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk > > Doesn't seem to do anything. Apparently I need to do the following: > However there I get: > > Do you want to run this program?[N/Yes] (note need to type Yes if you > do):Yes > > The problem has occurred looks like a hardware problem. If you have bad > blocks, we advise you to get a new hard drive, because once you get one > bad block that the disk drive internals cannot hide from your > sight,the chances of getting more are generally said to become much > higher (precise statistics are unknown to us), and this disk drive is > probably not expensive enough for you to you to risk your time and > data on it. If you don't want to follow that follow that advice then > if you have just a few bad blocks, try writing to the bad blocks and > see if the drive remaps the bad blocks (that means it takes a block it > has in reserve and allocates it for use for of that block number). > If it cannot remap the block, use badblock option (-B) with reiserfs > utils to handle this block correctly. > > bread: Cannot read the block (8210): (Input/output error). > > Warning... fsck.reiserfs for device /dev/system/LVM exited with signal > 6. fsck.reiserfs /dev/system/LVM failed (status 0x8). Run manually! > </quote> > > I do not believe it to be a hardwrae problem, but I also do not know how > to run it manualy, even after reading up on the manpages. > > houghi Maybe it's not the program for your issue, it's worked for me with other drive issues but alas I'm no expert with it so can't advise. :( Ram |