Hard drive crashed -- need advice

[fido123]

Use the liveCD they're recommending though, or alternatively go to Software Sources on your liveCD and make sure you have your repo's checked off under the 3rd tab or something like that.

EDIT: If you look at the second code box it says:

Originally Posted by http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=881344

You might resize at 16865632256 bytes or 16866 MB (freeing 23060 MB).

Originally Posted by http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=881344

In theory, I could resize to 16866 MB, but this is just an estimate. Playing it safe, I decide to resize to 19000MB. I want to make sure there are no unexpected problems so I do a test run of the filesystem resize operation (the --no-action prevents it from changing anything, the -b is short for --bad-sectors):

He got those results from what would be in your case the output of:

ntfsresize -ib /dev/sda2

Maybe even try it on sda1 and sda3 if sda2 doesn't come up with any bad sectors aka doesn't display:

Originally Posted by http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1244058

WARNING: This software has detected that the disk has at least 1 bad sector.
WARNING: Bad sectors can cause reliability problems and massive data loss!!!

[Reincarnate]

If you look at http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...0&postcount=25 I already tried PartedMagic or whatever the eff it's called

[who_cares973]

if you do buy a new laptop feel free to give me the broken one

[Reincarnate]

I also need to re-mention that the boot manager is totally borked and throws all sorts of lovely errors when I try to boot Windows (my WUBI installation is also ****ed)

EDIT: If I buy a new laptop I am destroying this one with a hammer

[who_cares973]

:<

at least record yourself doing that

[fido123]

Originally Posted by Reincarnate

I also need to re-mention that the boot manager is totally borked and throws all sorts of lovely errors when I try to boot Windows (my WUBI installation is also ****ed)

EDIT: If I buy a new laptop I am destroying this one with a hammer

Bad sectors are often a sign of the nearing death of a hardrive. Buy a new one I guess. If you want to recover data DO NOT boot your hardrive. Boot a liveCD of whatever and already have your backup media connected and back up stuff from there. You can access all files from your liveCD assuming you don't have any encrypted partitions.

I'm not really one for looking up deals but laptop hardrives are easy as hell to replace: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822136278

[Reincarnate]

There's no point in replacing the HDD -- this laptop sucks and the hard drive is all I care about (I don't want to lose my files).

It's just dumb because this problem should be entirely fixable but it's like everything's ****ing out and tossing errors/problems every step of the way.

Right now I'm loaded into PartedMagic/GParted trying to see wtf I can do here

[fido123]

Read that article I sent you and I suggest backing up any data you can ASAP. If you get errors just google or ask here. I won't be able to answer any questions now until ~6PM tomorrow though.

[Reincarnate]

Looks like it's too late anyway -- third partition's ****ed, too. Doesn't even show a number under how much room is used/unused. No files show up in the manager.

[Reincarnate]

Wow it doesn't even let me do a full wipe/reformat on the thing

[Reincarnate]

Welp there goes all mah pronz.

Time to get a better laptop anyway

[fido123]

Your hardrive has crashed. If you have super important shir on it don't touch your laptop at all and you can spend ~$800 to scan the data but that's kinda crazy. But yeah it's dead.

[Reincarnate]

I feel like I just witnessed someone dying of cancer within a day... started out as one obvious problem and soon became worse and worse and worse and worse until everything died off. lol

[supermousie]

rip Marcus' laptop.

and
I just waited for you to post again so I could congratulate you on reaching 3141 posts.
Congratulations on hitting 3141 posts.

[UserNameGoesHere]

It was a Seagate wasn't it? Open that sucker up, take the drive out. Seagate? (Seriously do tell)

And no, my commands do exactly what I said they'd do, no more and no less. If you enter it wrong, yeah you can really botch things up (dd is powerful) but it can be used for precise filesystem surgery as well. The seek parameter was to skip to the desired sector, bs was to select block size of a sector (which is usually 512) and count set to 1 to say only one sector. But you better get that seek number correct.

fido123 I don't appreciate implications that my commands were somehow damaging. Entered correctly and with the right values, they do exactly as instructed. I appreciate any complementary advice given but I am not here to damage anyone's machines and resent your implications to the contrary.