2009/6/17 Barry Marchant <barr...@paradise.net.nz> > > > Steve Holdoway wrote: >> >> On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 07:19 +1200, Jim Cheetham wrote: >> >> >>> SAMSUNG HD753LJ s/n S13UJ1NQB01779 was the one that failed. Failure >>> was more than "just" the filesystem, I was unable to read or write to >>> the partition table. >> >> That comment was aimed at Barry, the OP who restored his filesystem >> using an alternate superblock and has had no problem since... >> > I have had no problems since, because I have done nothing with the faulty ptn > apart from copying everything on the ptn to a external hd. It has been > returned to Dove and I await their response. BTW the drive was a WD1600AAJB. > The superblock failed and running 'cp /dev/hda6 /dev/null' reported at least > 2 unreadable sectors. It still managed to boot on another ptn after I deleted > the faulty 1 from fstab, but with many complaints. > > THanks for all the replies > > Barry >
Something which I have found useful in some cases is SpinRite ( www.grc.com/spinrite.htm ), which can perform low-level analysis and recovery of hard drive sectors. It's not free, but has been invaluable to me in the past (not recently, touch wood :) $0.02, David -- The meek don't want it.
