On 11/14/12 12:48, Gary Roach wrote:
I got home from vacation, fired up the systems and one of the hard drives was trashed. Two days of recovery attempts didn't work so I reformatted and reinstalled the Debian Squeeze system.
What do you mean by "trashed"?Have you run any hardware diagnostics on the "trashed" drive, such as those by the drive manufacturer? For example:
http://www.seagate.com/support/downloads/seatools/ Are you trying to use the "trashed" drive? David