De-activate a swap partition - I don't believe it!

[Anne Wilson]

On Monday 20 March 2006 17:08, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> Gordon Messmer wrote:
> > Anne Wilson wrote:
> >> Rebooting didn't help.  During bootup it reported
> >>
> >> I/O error on device hdb, logical block 0.
> >
> > Well, that probably means that the drive has a bad sector in a very
> > unlucky spot.
> >
> > I'm sure that's no relief to you, but I was worried for a minute that I
> > shouldn't use gparted in the future. ;)
>
> You may be able to get the drive to remap it using the diagnostics
> off of the Ultimate Boot CD. If so, you can try testdisk again after
> that. It should have gotten remapped automatically, but maybe the
> boot sector is treated differently because it contains the partition
> table, and is seldom written to...
>
Well, it looked fairly hopeful, for the partitions that had the more important 
data on them, so I decided to write the MBR, thinking that I could finish the 
job in fdisk once it could read that.  It couldn't write to sector 0 - so the 
warning was spot on.  The disk had died.

I have an identical drive, but I don't think I'll bother putting it in.  I 
thought that they were fairly new, but when I checked back they date to 
November 2004, and they only had a 1-year guarantee.  Thankfully drives with 
longer guarantees are becoming easier to get again, so I'll order one this 
evening.

It isn't a big issue.  I did have all the data backed up, and the whole system 
is on hda.  I can't make the larger /tmp that I was going to, but it probably 
doesn't matter for a day or two.

Anne
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