[ubuntu-uk] Diagnosing Faulty HDD

[Colin Law]

On 29 November 2011 11:18, Jon Reynolds <maillist at jcrdevelopments.com> wrote:
> On Tue, November 29, 2011 09:46, Simon Greenwood wrote:
>
>> I've got to agree that it sounds like software level corruption,
>> especially
>> the problem with logging in. However, there is a command line programme
>> called ntfsfix which is essentially fdsk for Windows disks which should at
>> least report errors. You could also use smartctl to look at the disk at
>> the hardware level.
>
> Is there any risk involved in running these? Risk as in loosing all data?

If the disk is suspect then the very first thing is to try and get the
data off first, before doing anything else.

Colin