Re: hard drive problem

[Adam Hardy <adam.ant@cyberspaceroad.com>]

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

Warning: invalid flag 0x0000 of partition table 4 will be corrected by write

If I enter fdisk /dev/hda6, I get the correct drive size etc.

This doesn't sound hopeful I know.

Regards
Adam