Hard drive crashed -- need advice

[UserNameGoesHere]

Re: Hard drive crashed -- need advice

Your other option:

Buy a new internal hard drive and an external hard drive.

Save the data you want to save onto the external hard drive -- you can access it from within Linux to save it.

Remove your internal hard drive and replace with newer, better one. Install Windows 7 on that.

Copy over data from external hard drive back to your new Windows 7 installation. Programs need to be reinstalled but data files can be reused.

Have fun with hammer and bad hard drive.

[Reincarnate]

Re: Hard drive crashed -- need advice

Now the boot manager is borked. Windows is such shit, but so is Ubuntu

[Reincarnate]

Re: Hard drive crashed -- need advice

**** it I will just buy another laptop. This is ridiculous.

[Reincarnate]

Re: Hard drive crashed -- need advice

I love how every single site online tells me that everything is solvable with the Windows 7 CD... and that doesn't even boot for me. Not even safe mode... nothing. Seriously stupid.

[fido123]

Re: Hard drive crashed -- need advice

Go on the live cd and run:

sudo -i
apt-get install ntfsfix
ln -s /usr/bin/ntfsfix /usr/sbin/fsck.ntfs
ln -s /usr/bin/ntfsfix /usr/sbin/fsck.ntfs-3g
fsck.ntfs /dev/sda1 && echo "SDA1" && fsck.ntfs /dev/sda2 && echo "SDA2" && sck.ntfs /dev/sda3 && echo "DONE"

Also worst comes to worst buy a new laptop hardrive. Maybe even spring on a nice SSD and get cream yourself worthy speeds. Honestly though this problem is 100% fixable. You need to run everything but the last command to get ntfs support for fsck.

EDIT: You could probably just repartition your disk with fdisk to easily avoid the bad sector if you know exactly which one it is. That dd command UserNameGoesHere posted could quite probably be overwriting critical system data, although my solution requires a whole reinstall unless you have an external hardrive we could image your partition onto.

[Reincarnate]

Re: Hard drive crashed -- need advice

It *should* be 100% fixable but... for whatever reason, everything I'm doing isn't fixing it.

I'll try your suggestion and edit this post shortly.

[fido123]

Re: Hard drive crashed -- need advice

Found an even better solution: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1244058

If a command isn't working at first cause it's not found or something always try 'sudo apt-get install <package name>'. I have a good feeling you'll have to run:

sudo apt-get install ntfsresize

If you need help understanding what's going on in that thread let me know.



EDIT: Also in that thread the OP is already root. To obtain this use 'sudo -i' as mentioned before.

EDIT2: It seem's he's using a bootable CD called part-magic. It probably doesn't matter at all if you just install anything it's using. All it is, is a liveCD that has a bunch of 'apt-get's ran on it already to put it simply.

EDIT3: Also replace 'hda' with 'sda' from that guide. hda = PATA/IDE drives while sda = SATA.

[Reincarnate]

Re: Hard drive crashed -- need advice

It's not letting me install ntfsfix... "Unable to locate package ntfsfix" after doing "apt-get install ntfsfix"

[Reincarnate]

Re: Hard drive crashed -- need advice

That page doesn't apply to me because the OP is able to run CHKDSK whereas I can't do shit

[Reincarnate]

Re: Hard drive crashed -- need advice

I don't know where the bad sector is either or how to find it

[fido123]

Re: Hard drive crashed -- need advice

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:

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

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:

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]

Re: Hard drive crashed -- need advice

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

[who_cares973]

Re: Hard drive crashed -- need advice

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

[Reincarnate]

Re: Hard drive crashed -- need advice

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]

Re: Hard drive crashed -- need advice

:<

at least record yourself doing that