My knee jerk reaction would be to get a replacement drive. Install Linux on it and attempt to mount the failing drive and see if you can pull off the information that you care about before the whole drive goes casters up. Good luck! On 9/7/07, Ken Jones <kjones@ziplink.net> wrote:
I have a single 120 Gig hard drive dual booted XP and Fedora Core 6 machine.
Recently Linux had been running slowly. I restarted, selected the linux side and was shocked to have it fail into a fix disk mode. It suggested that I use fsck. I did and answered "yes" to seemingly thousands of questions. Once finally done fixing errors I rebooted. Now it fails completely.
It complains about multiple "dma-intr: error" and {uncorrectable error}
The last gasp before terminating says: "not syncing: Attempted to kill init!"
Then it hangs indefinitely. No keyboard input has any affect.
The XP side of the machine works fine, but it crashes overnight. Where do I start? What do I do? Can I save the linux half of the hard drive?
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