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Hard disk problems, what utils should I use to diagnose-ext3
I previously posted a problem with my vt6200 laptop, that being that windows kept crashing. I scan disked and found that it crashed @ 75% each time. So I thought I'd load knoppix and and see if I could diagnose the problem.
Unfortunately it wasn't that simple. Knoppix kept crashing (leading me to think it was a motherboard fault)
However, I've bought an external USB caddy for 2.5" drives, filled my empty drive with junk and then copied it off. The disk reported I/O errors.
Someone helpfully suggested I used this command: Knoppix26 nomount noswap. So that's what I did, and I've been using knoppix for about an hour without crashing.
So now I know how to boot without crashing, what can I do to try and diagnose my problems? Anything I can do to try and fix them & worse come to wose, anything I can do to format this in a way that my personal data doesn't fall into the wrong hands when I harrass hitachi for a replacement?
The filesystem is NTFS
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I have no idea how to diagnose windows problems w/ Knoppix. You can however use DBAN to erase your drive.
http://dban.sourceforge.net/
If you don't have a floppy you could always use Knoppix to zero the drive like so:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda
A word of caution- don't test that command out to see what it does. There is no "are you sure?".
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