Re: Restoring inode information

On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 16:37:32 +0100, Roland wrote:
> I've run fsck and it reported numerous errors. The harddrive is
> clearly dieing.

It's not clear that it is. Hmm. Maxtor 160Gb. I'm gonna guess that's a
DiamondMax model 9. Several appear to have left the factory badly
formatted.

> After fsck 20GB ended up in lost+found (and +/- 10GB is just gone). I am
> copying everything to another disk now.

Then get hold of the Maxtor disk software, run a full format on the disk,
and run all the diagnostic tests afterwards. Only then will you know if
this was a hardware or a formatting failure.
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