hard disk

[Gregory Nowak]

Hmmm, how about a power spike?

Greg



> ----- Original Message -----
>From: Alex Snow <alex_snow at gmx.net
>To: speakup <speakup at braille.uwo.ca
>Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2003 13:02:00 -0500
>Subject: hard disk

>Hello all.
>last night when I was doing some sytem maintenance I noticed that the
>drive containing my ftproot wasn't mounted. this was odd bc this happens
>automatically on startup. further examination of the disk showed that it
>had no partition table. this wasnt a big deal because everything on
>there was just mirrored so a quick wget or 2 got me all the disk's
>contents back.
>my question is what could have caused this? the disk in question is a
>western digital (I think) 1.2 gig from about 1996/97.
>the reason I'm interested about what's happening is so I can see if any
>of my hardware is failing such as the disk or the ide controler.

>--
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>back.


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