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Article #4280Re: Intermittent hard drive problem -- help?!
From: Dave Sawtell
Date: Thu, 04 Oct 1990 12:10
Date: Thu, 04 Oct 1990 12:10
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My theory is that the part of the disk that stores the partition data may not be storing the partition data accurately. If you know what the partition data on your disk should be, run fdisk (while the disk isn't working) and see if the data on the disk is what it should be. If the data is not correct, the only solution I can think of to your problem is to reconstruct the partition data using fdisk every time the disk goes down. (If you do this, make sure you do it accurately becuase a slight error can couse big problems.)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!crdgw1!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!hplabs!hpcc05!col!hp-lsd!oldcolo!daves From: daves@oldcolo.UUCP (Dave Sawtell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: Intermittent hard drive problem -- help?! Message-ID: <270a6c7a-2049.1ibmpc-1@oldcolo.UUCP> Date: 4 Oct 90 12:10:02 GMT References: <29584@netnews.upenn.edu> Lines: 9