You may have a sick drive.
Zainal Abidin ACN wrote:
>
> Thanks for the replies.
>
> But, ooo Lord..
> I've got new problem here with my second drive, a big one I believe.
> Oo PLEASE, I hope there will be sulotion to this.
>
> Here's what happened;
>
> Because the fsck forced routine always took place everytime I boot,
> and that was because the shutdown always failed to finish, stopping at
> this message (seems like hang, I saw no disk activity, so I just reset
> or powered it off) :
>
> Unmounthing remote file system
>
> and because it once recommended me like this :
>
> /dev/hda3: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY
> (i.e.; without -a or -p options)
>
> so I ran : fsck.ext2 /dev/hda3 manually.
>
> But, it also failed to finish the checking, displaying repeated likely-
> unfinished messages which I didn't really get it.
> (something like recovering allocation process).
> (Was it because I once found bad sectors on this disk under Win98?).
>
> So, after about one hour (no notion it'll finish), helplessly I just
> pushed the reset button.
>
> And, .... (guess what happen next)
> ON THE FOLLOWING RESTART, MY MACHINE NO LONGER RECOGNISES THIS DRIVE!
>
> What's going on?
>
> I know I shouldn't have pushed that button, but anybody could hold on
> that situation?
>
> So, what to do now. That's really getting my nerves.
>
> Is there any way around to recover the drive?
>
> PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE...
