<div>On 10/11/05, Michael J. Lynch <<a href="mailto:mlynch@gcom.com">mlynch@gcom.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Charles Malespin wrote: > > > On 10/11/05, *Matt Patterson* <<a href="mailto:matt@v8zman.com">matt@v8zman.com</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:matt@v8zman.com">matt@v8zman.com</a>>> > 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@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></blockquote><div> 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. </div> </div>