[ale] Help. Sudden disappearance of Logical drives in Ext. Partition.

[Joe Story]

Thanks for the reply.  I am downloading some drve testing software from IBM
now.  As far as mounting the partition, I don't think that is possible b/c
it is shown as just an ext partition with no logical drives inside of it.


Joe-
----- Original Message -----
From: Jim Philips <jcphil at mindspring.com>
To: ale at ale.org
To: <ale at ale.org>; Joe Story <joestory at bellsouth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 9:45 PM
Subject: Re: [ale] Help. Sudden disappearance of Logical drives in Ext.
Partition.


> On Tuesday 26 November 2002 08:48 am, Joe Story wrote:
> > Hey all.  Anyone know if there is a way to recover from this.  Any info
> > greatly appreciated.  This machine dual boots Win98 and Slackware 8.  I
was
> > in windows and I noticed that my  D: drive (FAT32, Logical drive inside
ext
> > partition on IBM 75gig deskstar)  was showing jibberish ie, dfa___dfae!!
> > (random chars.)  on the label and in the filenames.  Could not open any
> > folders within that drive. The error message was something like "could
not
> > locate...."  Suddenly after that my machine locked up. Not surprising.
> > After rebooting, the EXT. partition still existed but no drives inside
that
> > were there.  I also noticed that dos's fdisk was only showing that drive
as
> > 8gig.
> >
> > Can anyone tell me what might have happened or give me some possible
ways
> > to ?rebuild? the logical drive so that I can recover the data there.
I'm
> > mostly curious as to what could have done this.  If I can't recover I
will
> > just have to start over on the 15+gigs of mp3's I had on that drive.
>
> Sounds like a corrupted hard drive. Can you mount the partition where your
> MP3's are located? If so, I would get them out of there as soon as
possible.
> See if IBM has a diagnostic program for this hard drive and scan it for
> problems. I'm almost positiver they have something like this. They have
one
> for my IBM hard drive.
>


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