If you know who the hard drive manufacturer is you can usually
download a utility that creates a bootable floppy that will test the
integrity of the drive.
Other than that if you have a second cd drive it may just be easier to
boot Knoppix and burn your data before you reinstall anything.
On Thu, 07 Oct 2004 20:20:32 -0400, SOTL <sotl155360@earthlink.net> wrote:
> 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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