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Gordon Henderson wrote: > On Sun, 5 Jul 2009, tom wrote: > > >> When my laptop went west a component on the motherboard overheated. It >> seems to have done something to the hard drive so the hard drive is >> asking to be initialised. Does anyone know of a way of just kicking its >> bottom to see it the data is still there on the drive? >> > > What do you mean by "askingto be initialised"? > > What format is(was) it - ext3, ntfs, ? > ext3 I think - its a good 5 years old Its so long since I worked at this 'low level' I took it the laptop to the pc shop in Holsworthy and they plugged the HD into a linux box and said it wanted to be initialised ie formatted - cant speek MS no more. ex2fsck is probably what I'm looking for? Feeling OLD Tom te tom te tom -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html