Can not access my slave drive...Need help!

[Neil]

On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Larry Shields <larryesu at charter.net> wrote:
> *As of this morning I no-longer can access my slave drive, which has
> ubuntu 8.04 on it...
>
> Upon booting up, I use the arrow key to move down to my second drive,
> hit enter it then tells me Error 22: No such partition and no format
> arguments...
>
> I then tried Knoppix 5.1 to see if it would access the slave drive, what
> it told me as could not mount device...
>
> The reported error was:
> mount: I could not determine the filesystem type, and none was specified...
>
> Can anyone help me out as to what I may need to do, to be able to once
> again access the slave drive, without loosing what I have on it...
>
> Thanks in advance Larry
> *

Hi

First: do you have a backup?
Can you please post the error message that says you can't mount it?
Can you SMART test it using Knoppix?
Have you checked the cable? (I have seen someone with an inexplicable
hole in an IDE cable, in a PC that hasn't been open for a year. He
hasn't been able to tell me how it happend)

Hope I can help

Neil




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