From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 12 11:55:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from echonyc.com (echonyc.com [198.67.15.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A62B337B400 for ; Fri, 12 Jan 2001 11:55:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (suleyman@localhost) by echonyc.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f0CJte123728 for ; Fri, 12 Jan 2001 14:55:40 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 14:55:40 -0500 (EST) From: Ken Seggerman To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: second hard drive fails (to boot) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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