Re: hard drive problem
On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 7:04 PM, Adam Hardy <adam.ant@cyberspaceroad.com> wrote:
> Forsaken on 05/08/08 19:25, wrote:
>>
>> On Aug 5, 2008, at 10:51 AM, Adam Hardy wrote:
>>>
>>> I just took the hard drives from one machine and installed them into
>>> another with a similar 500MHz CPU and mobo, but it hasn't worked out
>>> smoothly.
>>> fsck.ext3: no such file or directory while trying to read /dev/hdc1
>>> /dev/hdc1: the superblock could not be read or does not describe a
>>> correct ext2 filesystem
>>>
>>> /dev/hda6: clean, 11/3424256 files 151509/6839665 blocks
>>>
>>> fsck died with exit status 8
>>> failed (code 8)
>>
>>
>> If you type fdisk /dev/hdc1 and then press P, does it see the drive size
>> correctly or does it complain to you about accessing the device?
>
> fdisk /dev/hdc1
>
> ==>
>
> unable to open /dev/hdc1
>
> If however I enter fdisk /dev/hda1 then it gives me a whole paragraph about
> the hard drive having more than 1024 cylinders, the partition table contains
> no entries, and there is a message stating
What does just fdisk -l show? Is it really at hdc ?
Brian
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