On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Ashley @ Turton wrote:
on 14/3/02 1:34 pm, MJ Ray at markj@cloaked.freeserve.co.uk wrote:
Ashley @ Turton ashley@turton.com wrote:
hda5: bad access: block=128 count=2 end_request: I/O error, dev 03:05 (hda), sector 128
At first glance, that looks like a hardware failure. I hope I'm wrong.
The disk also has an installation of Windows ME on it and that boots fine. Hence, I think it is Linux specific, but I don't have the expertise to know how to rescue it. I know how to reinstall, but I would prefer not to do that.
It also sounds like a possible disk failure to me, I have had 2 in the past week. On both occasions the disk started failing and killed linux first but then took out windows also.
Anyhow any likelyhood of recovering files on that partition seem low because of the error message, you can try booting from a recovery disk and mounting the partition manually but I don't think you are going to get very far.
Adam