[GRLUG] Wonky old computer

[andross at gmail.com]

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.

On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 6:30 AM, Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam at whitemice.org
> wrote:

> On Sat, 2014-09-13 at 19:46 -0400, Eric Beversluis wrote:
> > I was checking out an old computer this morning--a dual boot setup with
> > an early Fedora and Win98 on it--I hadn't run it for 6 or so years.
> > Initially it booted up nicely to Windows (I aborted the Fedora boot when
> > my flat-screen monitor didn't like the resolution it was getting from
> > Fedora). But at some point it froze up and I had to power it down.
> > Now it won't boot at all. It gets to the point of saying it's found a
> > boot at IDE 0 but then hangs. "Searching for boot record from IDE-0. .OK"
> > With Knoppix I can access the old Fedora files but even Knoppix doesn't
> > see the Windows partition--it only sees /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda2, the
> > Fedora and swap partitions.
> > Any ideas? Did the Windows partition just somehow self-destruct?
>
> Does the system physically have two drives?  If it has only one then
> wither SDA1 or SDA2 is the Windows partition.  What does the output of
> "/sbin/fdisk -l" look like?
>
> You have a failed/failing drive most likely - no surprise for a drive
> that sat idle for six years.
>
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> Adam Tauno Williams <mailto:awilliam at whitemice.org> GPG D95ED383
> Systems Administrator, Python Developer, LPI / NCLA
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