gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: > On Wed, Jan 01 2014, walt wrote: > >> On 01/01/2014 02:07 PM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: >>> My home desktop has had a seagate external 750GB drive ST3750640cbrk for >>> a number of years and the disk is starting to fail. >> Maybe I'm weird or something but I've never once had a hard drive fail >> gradually/gracefully. They all just stop working, usually when I power >> the machine on for the first time in the morning. >> >> What warning is the disk giving you of early failure? > First it wouldn't mount in during startup. > > Then I tried switching the USB ports on the desktop and rebooted. > It mounted but fsck took forever with pauses. > > Then I shut down the system and unplugged the drive. > > allan > >
Can you check it with smartmontools? I guess if it can't be mounted tho, it doesn't really matter about the rest. That sort of makes it hard to rescue the data on it. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!
