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Date:	Sun, 15 Feb 2004 18:53:45 PST8
From:	Sheridan George <s-geo@usa.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	SCOUG Help <scoug-help@scoug.com >
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Corrupted Partition

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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.

Before I go to LVM and blow away C:, etc. I thought I would share my plight in case there is another
solution. FWIW, on my machine C: is my applications partition. Data, eCS 1.0, and eCS 1.1 are on
different partitions. Reinstalling applications while tedious is not a death threat. The silver
lining is Mozilla, Acrobat, Java, and others needed to be updated anyhow.

Fry's has the same drive I'm now using (WD 120 gig, 7200 rpm, 8 meg buffer) for $60 ($108 - $50).
Would someone comment on installing it along with dsync014 (on Hobbes) to give a mirrored copy as a
way to mitigate the result of a corrupted partition. Would the mirror drive's partition be corrupted
by the same gremlin?

Sheridan

PS I'm on my Warp 4 FP 12 computer and I can't believe how slow a 350MHz computer is compared to a
2GHz one.

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