[ltp] Is this hard drive dead??

[Michael Gaber]

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Stuart Friedman schrieb:
> T43 2687-D4U
> with a Seagate Momentus 160 gb hard drive and Fedora 10 the only OS on 
> board. Working fine for about two months until a few weeks ago when I 
> went to POST and then faced with a blinking cursor in the top left hand 
> of the screen. Took the drive out, put it into an external USB housing 
> and booted inot Windows on the original 40gb drive.
> 
> When I explore to the Seagate I am told that the format is RAW and that 
> there is nothing on the drive. I manage to recover needed documents from 
> it but now want to either send the d rive back for replacement or format 
> and install a new OS. If I sned it back I need to somehow remive the 
> data that is on it ( recovered it after all) but is not accessible by 
> normal means. How could i do that if the verdict is that it is a bad 
> drive BTW, I ran Seagate Tools and it told me the drive was fine.
> 
> If the drive is OK, how do I  get an OS on it. Preferably, I would like 
> XP and Fedora in it as I now have some work that requires XP. Most of 
> the dual boot options I see have the XP on first, but I assume there is 
> a way to do it with Fedroa and then XP. SO far, Iahvent' found a way to 
> get XP on it (this is probably the wrong place for this part of the 
> query), I have recovery disks and a slip streamed XP SP 3 disk.
> 
> Any suggestions


you might want to check the smart data (smartctl -a /dev/sda or similar) 
from a liveCD.
also testdisk might be able to restore the filesystems that were on the 
drive
if smartctl shows something about reallocated sector count or 
reallocated event count, that would be enough evidence to get the drive 
replaced.

Regards Michael

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