[TriLUG] Buffer I/O error

[Sam Folk-Williams]

I'm sorry -- for some reason I thought you were running red hat, never
mind my comment about red hat install cd 1 if you are not ;)

On 7/17/05, Sam Folk-Williams <sam.folkwilliams at gmail.com> wrote:
> I would also try doing fsck on the drive to attempt to repair the
> filesystem. You can do this from knoppix, or from rescue mode off the
> red hat install cd 1. That would be a first step. If you are pretty
> sure the disk is hosed I would try putting it into another box and
> getting the data off that way, or using knoppix to access it (if
> possible) and dump it to a CD or another drive if you have another
> drive. Sometimes these methods work...
> 
> On 7/17/05, Carl Crider <c.crider at gmail.com> wrote:
> > a quick suggestion would be to boot to knoppix, and see if you can get
> > to your data
> > that way.
> >
> > what distribution do you have installed?
> >
> > On 7/17/05, B C <bc81982 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hey guys,
> > >
> > > I recently booted up my computer and got the message "Buffer I/O error
> > > on device hda, logical block #"  (#=0 to 7)
> > >
> > > It seems to me that my hd failed?  Any thoughts?  Is there any way to
> > > recover the hard drive and save my data?  TIA
> > >
> > > --bc
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