Re: [MLUG] dead drive replacement

[Daniel Nowlin <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Here is what it is doing.  It will spin up but BIOS will not see the 
drive.  When it is hooked up it just hoses on auto-detect.  I have tried 
different cables and computers.  None of my machines are capable of 
setting the tracks/sectors/heads so I can not try that.  I even tried to 
put it in a USB external case.

I have the important things on that drive backed up but I really do not 
want to reinstall.  Like I said, I just got it going about two days ago 
(FC4 with PHP4).  If I could just get two more boots out of it (one for 
test, one for image) I would be happy.  I think I might try the freezer 
trick.

Dan

Mark Rages wrote:

> On 11/5/05, Daniel Nowlin <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
>  
>
> > Does anybody know how I go about replacing a dead drive in my FC4 box.
> > It was the drive that had the VAR partition on it.  I just got FC up and
> > running when this happened and I realy do not want to reinstall.  I do
> > have access to ghost and acronis.
> >
> > Dan
> >    
>
> Does it work at all?  Is there anything in /var you need to recover?
>
> I never like to suggest this, but if /var is hosed, the easiest
> recovery is to reinstall, assuming /home and /usr/local are on their
> own partition and won't be disturbed.  Tar up /etc so you don't have
> to redo all the configuration.
>
>  

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