[olug] hard drive

[Eric Lusk]

Yes, run the diags on it to see if it's failing in some way (sudden filesystem changes are not a good sign).  
If it tests ok, but takes a long time, like 4+ hours, to test, then it's shot.  Even if diags say it's fine, consider it failing.
Testdisk is a good utility to pull data from a drive, or in some cases to "unformat", even on failing drives.  It's available for *nix, Windows, Mac...  

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----- Original Message ----
From: Kelly Williams <kellywilliams81 at gmail.com>
To: Omaha Linux User Group <olug at olug.org>
Sent: Tue, February 16, 2010 1:03:50 PM
Subject: [olug] hard drive

I had a hard drive that was formated in NTFS. I had to backup the server due to hardware upgrade. It my software server where I have all the opensource software, ISOs, and machine images for my clonezilla software.  I plugged in the drive to my windows system then it said that It was corrupted  and would not  work and it was making weird noises. I thought the drive was shot. I was about reformat  the hard drive to see if it still works. I plugged it my laptop that has ubuntu 9.04 it started up. I looked on system monitor and under the file systems tab and it said it was a fuseblk type. I am trying to figure out how it got to a fuseblk format instead of NTFS that I use it on my Windows systems and Linux Systems. Any ideas how this happen and how to prevent this.

Kelly
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