[OT] my hard drive was murdered!

[Mark]

I had a similar problem.  I thought it was the hard drive, but for me
it turned out to be the power supply.  It wasn't the PS exactly, but
my Radeon 9700 was pulling so much power, it was causing the drives to
not get enough, and so they weren't able to function properly.  A new,
better PS fixed that.  But it sounds to me like your drive might
actually be dead.  What brand is it?

Mark


On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 20:24:16 -0400, volvoguy <volvoguy at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi group. I have sad news this time. It may not be Ubuntu related, but
> since Ubuntu was running at the time, I want to throw the issue out
> there and see if the collective knowledge on the list here can help me
> out.
> 
> I leave my computer on 24/7. The whole machine is only about 2 months
> older than Ubuntu itself, so I know the hardware wasn't nearing the
> end of it's life. When I got up this morning, I thought it was odd
> that my screensaver wasn't running - but I jiggled the mouse and was
> prompted for my password (as I set it to do). After several tries with
> the correct password, I knew something was wrong. I tried switching to
> one of the other consoles and all of them were repeating this error
> over and over:
> 
> EXT-fs error (device hda3) in start_transaction: Journal has aborted
> 
> Yikes. I've never seen that before. I did a hard reboot (the only
> thing left to do) and my BIOS recognizes my primary hard drive (on
> which hda3 has Ubuntu installed), but when it attempts to boot, I get
> the dreaded "no operating system found. press any key to reboot". The
> only "live" cd I had around was "slax" (a slackware derrivative), so I
> booted with that and it found my second HD (a SATA drive) during
> bootup, but it didn't automatically mount the first hard drive (an
> IDE/ATA 133 drive), nor could I manually mount it. (error was
> something to the effect of "/dev/hda doesn't exist" or "bad superblock
> or too many mounted filesystems"). I've tried booting with a Norton
> Systemworks disc and a Western Digital data lifeguard recovery  disc -
> neither of which do much of anything. My next test is to see if the
> Windows XP disc recognizes the drive. I've never had the problem where
> the BIOS sees the drive, but can't boot from it.
> 
> While I'm almost positive Ubuntu didn't have anything to do with this,
> can anybody offer some more troubleshooting suggestions? (off list if
> this is deemed off-topic) I'm at my wits end. :(
> 
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