CANT BOOT!!!

[Charles Malespin]

On 10/11/05, Michael J. Lynch <mlynch at gcom.com> wrote:
>
> Charles Malespin wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 10/11/05, *Matt Patterson* <matt at v8zman.com <mailto:matt at v8zman.com>>
> > wrote:
> >
> > It sounds like you have a disk that has failed, but based on your recent
> > upgrade I would be very suspicious of that too. Are you able to stick
> > the drive in an external enclosure or another computer to see if it can
> > be read elsewhere?
> >
> >
> > I cant take the drive out at all. I tried messing with it more, and
> > upon another hard reboot it allowed me to get into windows. Unfort.
> > Windows is screwed cause I hadnt been there in a while doing security
> > upgrades, so now IE wont work and I cant access the internet. So that
> > side is worthless. I can also boot into rescue mode, but it keeps saying
> > Additional sense: Unrecovered read error - auto reallocate failed
> > current sda : sense key Medium error
> > Additional sense: Address mark not found for data field
> > end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 289905801
> > (among a long list of other things)
> > root at none:
> >
> >
> > Is there anyway to salvage this or am I just doomed?
> >
>
> Looks like your doomed. This is mostly likely a drive or controller
> failure. If you can, try a different SCSI controller.
>
> <snip>




Well if I am doomed, whats to prevent this from happening again? I mean if I
reinstall, that wont fix anything will it? Is there anything I can do to
check or fix this so that it wont happen on my new install? I would hate for
this to keep happeneing. Someone in another forum suggested booting with a
live CD and then doing fsck to see what happens... Will this work. i just
want to make sure that if I do HAVE to reinstall that I wont run into this
problem again right away.
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