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sermed
Joined: 20 Feb 2013 Posts: 5
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Posted: Wed 20 Feb 2013, 13:01 Post subject:
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it is my internal hard disk suddenly this message appeared at boot
(A disk read error occurred Press Ctrl + Alt + Del to restart )
I have connected it as external hd to another laptop . I can see the partitions but it asks me
to format it and when i want to make chkdsk it says not supported for RAW .
I have connected my hard to Puppy Linux it has read my hard drive partitions but displayed error message .
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this is the error message |
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15.54 KB |
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p310don
Joined: 19 May 2009 Posts: 1159 Location: Brisbane, Australia
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Posted: Wed 20 Feb 2013, 17:33 Post subject:
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Can you copy from the drive to a good drive?
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Makoto

Joined: 03 Sep 2009 Posts: 2095 Location: Out wandering... maybe.
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Posted: Wed 20 Feb 2013, 22:08 Post subject:
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Since the drive is formatted in NTFS, if you have access to a Windows system (XP or higher), you should probably try to access the drive in Windows and then run a scandisk/chkdsk on it.
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sermed
Joined: 20 Feb 2013 Posts: 5
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Posted: Wed 20 Feb 2013, 22:36 Post subject:
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In windows it asks me to format the hard disk partitons , and when i apply chkdsk it says not available for raw/ please is there any way to getmy data?
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p310don
Joined: 19 May 2009 Posts: 1159 Location: Brisbane, Australia
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Posted: Thu 21 Feb 2013, 00:36 Post subject:
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Maybe you need to give testdisk a try...
http://puppylinux.org/wikka/testdisk
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01micko

Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 8670 Location: qld
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Posted: Thu 21 Feb 2013, 02:38 Post subject:
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Since you can get read only access copy as much stuff as you can while within Puppy. I gather you aren't backed up.
Make sure you have media as large as what the space is taken up on the offending drive to copy to, suggest a usb2 hard drive for fastest transfer or through a fast ethernet connection to a place on your LAN (if available).
Good Luck!
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Monsie

Joined: 01 Dec 2011 Posts: 633 Location: Kamloops BC Canada
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Posted: Thu 21 Feb 2013, 04:28 Post subject:
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Hi sermed,
You can also try ntfsfix command at the terminal:
Code: | ~# ntfsfix -help
ntfsfix v2.0.0 (libntfs 10:0:0)
Usage: ntfsfix [options] device
Attempt to fix an NTFS partition.
-h, --help Display this help
-V, --version Display version information
For example: ntfsfix /dev/sda6
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This won't fix all errors in a partition necessarily, but it is worth a try.
Hope this helps,
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sermed
Joined: 20 Feb 2013 Posts: 5
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Posted: Thu 21 Feb 2013, 09:15 Post subject:
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01micko wrote: | Since you can get read only access copy as much stuff as you can while within Puppy. I gather you aren't backed up.
Make sure you have media as large as what the space is taken up on the offending drive to copy to, suggest a usb2 hard drive for fastest transfer or through a fast ethernet connection to a place on your LAN (if available).
Good Luck! |
How can I MAKE A BACKUP PLEASE PLEASE
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sermed
Joined: 20 Feb 2013 Posts: 5
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Posted: Thu 21 Feb 2013, 09:56 Post subject:
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I have ran ntfsfix /dev/sda6
says :
failed to startup volume : input /output error
volume is corrupt you should run chkdsk
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p310don
Joined: 19 May 2009 Posts: 1159 Location: Brisbane, Australia
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Posted: Thu 21 Feb 2013, 12:11 Post subject:
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How did you get to the first picture you put up?
It is clearly seeing things on the drive. Can you drag and drop things from that drive to a working drive?
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sermed
Joined: 20 Feb 2013 Posts: 5
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Posted: Thu 21 Feb 2013, 17:40 Post subject:
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I have dragged some files but an error occurred an stopped the transfer
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