Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 14:55:40 -0500 (EST) From: Ken Seggerman <suleyman@echonyc.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: second hard drive fails (to boot) Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0101121441460.19116-100000@echonyc.com>
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Greetings: I had several OS's, (Windows NT, FreeBSD 4.2, and NetBSD 4.?) on a computer with two Western Digital hard drives in a multiple-boot situation managed by System Commander. The second drive contained the FreeBSD partition and it no longer boots. It starts to boot normally then informs me of a HARD DRIVE READ ERROR and cannot mount the root file system. I think the drive is spinning, but has bad sectors. I am not sure. It shows up as a fraction of its real size in System Commander, and as non existent when I try to fdsk it from NetBSD. How do I tell if I should throw out the hard drive and replace it, or try to repartition? Any advice would be welcome. Thanks, Ken Seggerman To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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