On Sat, 2005-11-05 at 01:11 +0100, Rafael Rodríguez wrote: > Hi. The hard disk of my Pavilion zv5000 exploded last week. The linux root > partition became unmountable due to lots of bad blocks in my reiser > filesystem. > > Today finally, thanks to dd_rescue and reiserfsck i was able to recover most > of the info to a brand new external drive (well, it's an usb box with a 2.5" > HD inside). > > A couple of details: > > * The HP hard disk doesn't seem to be standard (did anyone notice this?). The > 2.5" toshiba HD i bought doesn't fit perfectly in my laptop due to the > connector, and my damaged Seagate (FUCK THEM!) HD doesn't fit in the LG USB > box... So it seems that if warranty doesn't cover me, i only can purchase a > new HD from HP (ñlfaddsfñhñ#&%fhadsifas!!!)) > The hard drive DOES seem to be standard. I've swapped my drive out with a 10GB disk from my old Acer laptop without any problem (this was for testing a new flavor of Linux, temporarily). The connector comes off the existing drive and can be put on the new drive.
> * There seems to be LOTS of bad blocks. Did anyone experience this before? > Luckily, my shop offers me a 3-year warranty... i'll try to explain them > what's a bad block with linux (don't know if they have even heard about it) > and let's see what happens. > I've not had any problems with bad blocks. Dan _______________________________________________ LinuxR3000 mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pcxperience.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxr3000 Wiki at http://prinsig.se/weekee/
