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Date:	Mon, 16 Feb 2004 19:25:49 PST8
From:	Sheridan George <s-geo@usa.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Corrupted Partition

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Sheridan George wrote:
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> When I shut-down my eCS 1.0 computer it started beeping (about once
> every 10 sec.). I left it and came back about an hour later it was
> still beeping. I shut off the computer (I wasn't smart enough to C-A-D
> first to see what might happen). Turning it off firmly set in concrete
> what ever the problem was. When I turned it on the next day it wouldn't
> boot. Shortly after the boot manager menu there was a diagnostic that
> included the words "the system is stopped". Went to my maintenance
> partition (really a full install of eCS 1.1). There was a lot of check
> disk activity and it booted. I can get to every where on my hard drive
> except C:. A RMC check disk does nothing - it just sits there like it
> is doing something but nothing happens. Did a chkdsk /f from a command
> line. The checker reports that redoing the journal failed. A double
> click on the C: drive icon gives a "drive not available" response. LVM
> reports the partition may be corrupted.
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For anyone that cares, I downloaded DFSee from the DFSee site and it told me c: was unusable and that
a format or restore was required. Since I don't have a restore file I'm left with blowing away C:,
reconstructing it, and then repopulating it with my applications. Grrr, but I can't complain. I've
had more than my share of good luck. Of about a dozen hard drives I used since 1983 only two have
failed and neither of those failures were without a long period of warning. This is the first time
that I lost anything. Even this time what was lost is replaceable; not easily but replaceable.

Next time I'll be better prepared - Create restore files with DFSee and a keep mirror copy of all
partitions on a seperate HD. Now as long as I don't get hit by fire or flood.

Sheridan

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