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Old 10-10-2012, 09:51 AM
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Originally Posted by Colin_Fraser View Post
The problem is not that bad. If it was okay before you went to bed, then maybe it just was not dismounted correctly.
There's a couple of ways of fixing it depending on the OS, type of drive, physical size and whether it's internal or external.
It happens to me when I neglect to dismount the drive before removing it.
If it's in a laptop, you can remove it and put it in a usb drive case and retrieve the data on a different computer.

Hope it helps.
It's not that simple Colin. I'm fairly sure it is the boot disk on one of my Linux systems. It has 3 disks. root is ext3 but everything else is in LVM. It sounds like it is not spinning up. There are head movement noises but it's hard to identify which disk is making them.
I just tried booting it from DVD and that's not working either. I'll take it up to the local shop and let them test the hardware. It could also be a failed rail in the power supply. This is the only disk on that controller. Normally I'd look at it myself but I don't have spares.
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