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Hard disk suddenly became RAW. What to do?
Posted: Wed 20 Feb 2013, 17:01
by sermed
it is my internal hard disk suddenly this message appeared at boot
(A disk read error occurred Press Ctrl + Alt + Del to restart )
I have connected it as external hd to another laptop . I can see the partitions but it asks me
to format it and when i want to make chkdsk it says not supported for RAW .
I have connected my hard to Puppy Linux it has read my hard drive partitions but displayed error message .
Posted: Wed 20 Feb 2013, 21:33
by p310don
Can you copy from the drive to a good drive?
Posted: Thu 21 Feb 2013, 02:08
by Makoto
Since the drive is formatted in NTFS, if you have access to a Windows system (XP or higher), you should probably try to access the drive in Windows and then run a scandisk/chkdsk on it.
Posted: Thu 21 Feb 2013, 02:36
by sermed
In windows it asks me to format the hard disk partitons , and when i apply chkdsk it says not available for raw/ please is there any way to getmy data?
Posted: Thu 21 Feb 2013, 04:36
by p310don
Maybe you need to give testdisk a try...
http://puppylinux.org/wikka/testdisk
Posted: Thu 21 Feb 2013, 06:38
by 01micko
Since you can get read only access copy as much stuff as you can while within Puppy. I gather you aren't backed up.
Make sure you have media as large as what the space is taken up on the offending drive to copy to, suggest a usb2 hard drive for fastest transfer or through a fast ethernet connection to a place on your LAN (if available).
Good Luck!
Hard disk suddenly became RAW. What to do?
Posted: Thu 21 Feb 2013, 08:28
by Monsie
Hi sermed,
You can also try
ntfsfix command at the terminal:
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~# ntfsfix -help
ntfsfix v2.0.0 (libntfs 10:0:0)
Usage: ntfsfix [options] device
Attempt to fix an NTFS partition.
-h, --help Display this help
-V, --version Display version information
For example: ntfsfix /dev/sda6
This won't fix all errors in a partition necessarily, but it is worth a try.
Hope this helps,
Monsie
Posted: Thu 21 Feb 2013, 13:15
by sermed
01micko wrote:Since you can get read only access copy as much stuff as you can while within Puppy. I gather you aren't backed up.
Make sure you have media as large as what the space is taken up on the offending drive to copy to, suggest a usb2 hard drive for fastest transfer or through a fast ethernet connection to a place on your LAN (if available).
Good Luck!
How can I MAKE A BACKUP PLEASE PLEASE
Posted: Thu 21 Feb 2013, 13:56
by sermed
I have ran ntfsfix /dev/sda6
says :
failed to startup volume : input /output error
volume is corrupt you should run chkdsk
Posted: Thu 21 Feb 2013, 16:11
by p310don
How did you get to the first picture you put up?
It is clearly seeing things on the drive. Can you drag and drop things from that drive to a working drive?
Posted: Thu 21 Feb 2013, 21:40
by sermed
I have dragged some files but an error occurred an stopped the transfer