Hi All
The simple question is:
Is there any way to determine if a hard drive [including controller] is
bad?
The more complex version is:
Is it possible that a partition issue will allow a HD not to operate?
What happened:
I viewed a web site which apparently had some script or language issue
that caused a issue with the linux partitions on the linux side of my
dual boot laptop. This has happen before and has not cause major
difficulties in repair in the past.
At this point I could still boot into MS Windows.
Later messing around with an attempt to reinstall Linux some how I may
have corrupted the boot loader or the HD just finally died but now it
will not boot into Windows. What I am trying to ascertain is if there is
any way to ascertain which.
In trying to determine if the HD is operation but I have corrupted
partitions I downloads the latest Tomsrtbt. This latest version of
Tomsrtbt does work on the computer I down loads it with but it does not
work with either of my other two computers. I also have an older edition
of Tomsrtbt but it has never worked with the laptop. There was a driver
issue in the older version which apparently still exists in the newest
version.
I have been loth to put the Windows reinstall disk in an attempt to
reinstall Windows and a non corrupt boot sequence as I have fears that I
may loose months of data and work even though the data was originally in
a separate partition which in the past has survived complete Windows and
Linux reinstalls.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks
Frank
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