Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (5100 mails)

[Stephen W <winstephen@xxxxxxxxx>]

People, I'm learning ... Thanks for our help.  Now I
have been able to access 3 of the drives seen by my
bios (Master Primary, Master Slave and Secondary
Slave... the Secondary Master is still missing to
linux).

However, what I had to do was to mount them in a fold
called /mnt (don't ask me why, I just follwed the
clues when I tried other things).

I am not able to do an fdisk from either my user
logon, or going to su.  The only way i have been able
to use fdisk is to log on s root, cd /sbin and the use
fdisk.  The system will not let me use it any other
way.  (O well, at least I can use it).

I can access files on the old linux disk (SuSE) and
one of my old Windows disks.  I am still not able to
access the old primary Windows disk (which in the old
system was C) and the one I am not able to dual boot
from... this is what started all of this... when I
tried to boot the old system one day I got this error
message:

GRUB hard disk failure... 

Which probably means the disk is fried... and I cannot
get anything from it... I have tried to mount it using
the commands that got the other two seen, but no luck.
 Any other ideas to rescue it?

Thanks

Here is the output of latest fdisk (as you can see, I
put in a folder to hold hdc, but have not been able to
put anything in it):

[root@localhost root]# fdisk -l
 
Disk /dev/hdd: 3501 MB, 3501793280 bytes
128 heads, 63 sectors/track, 848 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 8064 * 512 = 4128768 bytes
 
   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id 
System
/dev/hdd1             1       128    516064+  82 
Linux swap
/dev/hdd2   *       129       848   2903040   83 
Linux
 
Disk /dev/hda: 163.9 GB, 163928604672 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19929 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
 
   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id 
System
/dev/hda1   *         1        13    104391   83 
Linux
/dev/hda2            14     19799 158931045   83 
Linux
/dev/hda3         19800     19929   1044225   82 
Linux swap
 
Disk /dev/hdb: 8455 MB, 8455200768 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1027 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
 
   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id 
System
/dev/hdb1   *         1       257   2064321    6 
FAT16
/dev/hdb2           258      1026   6176992+   f 
Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hdb5           258       514   2064321    6 
FAT16
/dev/hdb6           515       770   2056288+   6 
FAT16
/dev/hdb7           771      1026   2056288+   6 
FAT16
[root@localhost root]# cd /mnt
[root@localhost mnt]# dir
floppy  hdb  hdc  hdd
[root@localhost mnt]#

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Stephen W
Sarasota, FL

"A merry heart doeth good like a medicine ..."  Proverbs


	
		
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