purple_monkfish

Well i'll have to leave it for now then, least till I have the time to spend slaving drives etc etc. The drive itself, i don't actually know how old it is, it was a replacement for my last drive which died quite thoroughly a few years back. I seem cursed when it comes to hard drives, they last for about a year then just explode heh.. what do I do to them!? I think most of the really really important data is backed up on the internet (like art, photos etc) but there's a few things i'd like to be able to save if I can. Mostly my MP3s because oh dear god i'm not going to burn 200 cds again. I

Hmmm, well given that I can't even open windows it's that corrupt... Not a good thing ever. Maybe I can sacrifice an old pc with an old windows installation to gain access to the drive as a slave drive. Within moments i'm sure the viruses would infect the second pc but it might buy me enough time.. maybe. I'd have to check to see if my old pc has windows still installed on it but I think that hard drive is completely corrupt and unsalvagable. I'll have to find a cheap small drive to install windows on. So, step by step.. i'd need to access windows and run chkdsk, then run virtualbox? What is t

Disk /dev/sda: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x69737369 This doesn't look like a partition table Probably you selected the wrong device. Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 ? 116388 126889 84344761 69 Unknown Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/sda2 ? 105915 222310 934940732+ 73 Unknown Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/sda3 ? 1 1 0 74 Unknown Part

fdisk -l doesn't seem to do anything at all, it doesn't give me any output. root@ubuntu:/home/ubuntu# ntfsfix /dev/sda Mounting volume... Failed to startup volume : Invalid argument FAILED Attempting to correct errors... FAILED Failed to startup volume : Invalid argument Volume is corrupt. You should run chkdsk. That, doesn't look good.

ntfs-3g ntfscluster ntfsdecrypt ntfslabel ntfsresize ntfscat ntfscmp ntfsfix ntfsls ntfsundelete ntfsclone ntfscp ntfsinfo ntfsmount Ahh, partition thing makes sense, as I said, my harddrive was partitioned into two parts because my father in his infinite wisdow decided it was better than having two independent drives (bah, bah I say. I would have prefered two drives so I could access at least one of the damned things)

Nope, but I tried taking away the number and mount hda seemed to do something. It's told me: dev/hda is write protected, mounting read only Progress? maybe... Trying to mount SDA (which is what it claims my large file system is it says: Cannot read superblock.

Ok, Hda1 - Special device hda1 does not exist Same for sda1 Either they have different names or it's unable to read/detect ntfs. Suggestions?

Windows crashed on me, again.. thanks in part to various viruses so i've booted up Ubuntu off a cd which at the very least gives me internet access. However, I want to access my hard drive (it's partitioned into two parts via win2k) but have no idea where to start. I'm a complete linux noob i'm afraid. I need to back things up (again) before I can wipe my hard drive completely and start again so any help in mounting and accessing those drives would be appreciated. I'm not sure if they're NTFS or FAT, I have the feeling that for some reason the partition is fat and the other is default ntfs bu