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Turns out there are two HDDs, per Adam's guess. Which makes it
easier to understand why the Fedora system is available but not the
Windows system--I'm guessing it's unlikely that one partition would
go bad but not another on the same HDD barring some process having
corrupted one of the partitions.<br>
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I've removed the wonky HDD and will experiment some with it via an
IDE-USB connection. I don't think there's actually that much data on
it that I'd need. The eTower will go to recycle along with some
other oldie's that should have gone out long ago.<br>
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Thanks.<br>
<br>
EB<br>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 09/15/2014 02:19 PM,
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:andross@gmail.com">andross@gmail.com</a> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Yeah, failing hard drive, probably mucked up the
partition tables. You might be able to use testdisk to rebuild
the partition table and get at the data.<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 6:30 AM, Adam
Tauno Williams <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:awilliam@whitemice.org" target="_blank">awilliam@whitemice.org</a>></span>
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class="">On Sat, 2014-09-13 at 19:46 -0400, Eric
Beversluis wrote:<br>
> I was checking out an old computer this morning--a
dual boot setup with<br>
> an early Fedora and Win98 on it--I hadn't run it for
6 or so years.<br>
> Initially it booted up nicely to Windows (I aborted
the Fedora boot when<br>
> my flat-screen monitor didn't like the resolution it
was getting from<br>
> Fedora). But at some point it froze up and I had to
power it down.<br>
> Now it won't boot at all. It gets to the point of
saying it's found a<br>
> boot at IDE 0 but then hangs. "Searching for boot
record from IDE-0. .OK"<br>
> With Knoppix I can access the old Fedora files but
even Knoppix doesn't<br>
> see the Windows partition--it only sees /dev/sda1 and
/dev/sda2, the<br>
> Fedora and swap partitions.<br>
> Any ideas? Did the Windows partition just somehow
self-destruct?<br>
<br>
</span>Does the system physically have two drives? If it
has only one then<br>
wither SDA1 or SDA2 is the Windows partition. What does the
output of<br>
"/sbin/fdisk -l" look like?<br>
<br>
You have a failed/failing drive most likely - no surprise
for a drive<br>
that sat idle for six years.<br>
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--<br>
Adam Tauno Williams <mailto:<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:awilliam@whitemice.org">awilliam@whitemice.org</a>>
GPG D95ED383<br>
Systems Administrator, Python Developer, LPI / NCLA<br>
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