Input/Output error

Karl Larsen k5di at zianet.com
Tue Oct 21 21:03:57 UTC 2008


Alain Muls wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have got a USB connected drive which crashed recently. I can still mount its 
> partitions, but for certain directories and files, I get an Input/Output error. 
> How can I diagnose this further and what action should I unertake to clean up 
> the disk.
>
> Tx/Alain
>
>   
    Tell us what file system the hard drive partitions have. How many 
partitions? What are you checking the data with? Is it only a certain 
file system that is failing?


Karl




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