I agree with the opinion that the disk is dead, presuming you already gave us
all the relevant info. Can you mount a floppy and boot? If you have windoze,
www.toms.net/rb has a version of linux that builds under dos - a zip file.
Then
#e2fsck - n will tell you about the state of the hd, and offer the address of
an alternative superblock
# badblocks will check the disk blocks. Use switches. With that history, I'd
back up anything you want off the windoze side NOW!!
e2fsck can be run to call badblocks.
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Regards,
Declan Moriarty
Applied Researches - Ireland's Foremost Electronic Hardware Genius
A Slightly Serious(TM) Company
Experience is like a comb,
that Life gives you - AFTER all your hair has fallen out!
On Sunday 16 December 2001 05:08, you wrote:
> After running a Win95/col2.2 dual boot for 2.5 years the col2 suddenly
> shutdown down one night in the middle of an internet session. I mean the
> screen just went dark. The bootup was .located in the hda mbr. On
> reboot, boot magic failed with the error message that the linux
> partition couldn't be found. Took the opportunity to upgrade to e2.4.
> After two weeks it failed to bootup. Error message said something was
> cycling too fast and it would have to shut down for five minutes.
> Never booted up. Upgraded to w3.1. Lasted about three days before did
> the same thing. Boot and rescue disks failed to boot system. Shifted to
> Mandrake 7.0. After a month failed to boot. Error message said reading 1
> bit in swap sync. Moved to Mandrake 8.0, 8.1 same results. The system is
> a Mainboard running a 200mmx Pentium with 64Meg memory and a Quantum 4
> gig big foot hd. Only thing I can think of for this is that the hd may
> be going bad and files are getting corrupted in bad sectors. Any
> opinions?
>
> Lee
>
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