Hmm...that's weird!
You couldn't even stick it in another computer (as slave) and format/fdisk it?
yeah, instead of using sudo knoppix-installer, (hand't seen that) I tried the tohd which I found in the cheat codes file. Don't know which version, don't have it with me. But it wrecked the hard drive, I mean I had to go out and buy a new one, spent ages in parted and fsck, dosfsk and all that. But it was like I'd taken that hard drive out and kicked it round the room. Not angry or anything, my risk and all, got a new hard drive and did knoppix install, really like it, of course it's debian, but I like the whole idea. Thank ya. God bless![]()
Hmm...that's weird!
You couldn't even stick it in another computer (as slave) and format/fdisk it?
Let me get this straight: you typed "tohd=/dev/hdxx" at the KNOPPIX splash screen, and next thing you knew your HD was trashed?
As far as I know, when you type tohd, all that happens is that about 700MB of stuff gets copied from the CD to a directory called knoppix in the top level of the partition you indicate. And if there isn't enough room or it doesn't accept the partition's type of format, it doesn't copy anything. In that sense, I've used it a lot precisely because it has always been extremely "low impact" for me -- from the windows perspective, no more than "just another folder" in my root directory.
So I am curious what other details you noticed. Like:
Did the drive have an unusual configuration? Was it NTFS? Is it possible the drive was "hanging by a thread" to start with?
well it certainly wasn't hanging by a thread, of stuff that had happened on it since I bought it, all that I remember going wrong before was one or two circular references on my fat32 partitions, which dosfsck fixed. I did the tohd thing, and then when i tried to run knoppix from the hd, it would give something like seek error(etc etc) :41009, over and again then reset(0) or something like that and then repeat itself whenever it was trying to read from the hd. I don't have any info with me (on a friends comp). Then I went and booted my red hat 9, and it did the same thing when trying to load kde, tried booting windows and it would just freeze as soon as grub chainloaded, and errors were just popping up everywhere I tried to access the hd, on every partition. As to trying to fdisk it etc, I tried that, running the knoppix cd and using fdisk, which wouldn't even read it, qtparted which crashed consistently, and parted which worked best but didn't fix it at all. I even tried a 5 hour dos format from a recovery disk, where it said "trying to fix allocation unit 5009" up to about allocation unit 10000000 or such, and it didn't do a single good thing. Still if it works ok for you, perhaps it was a fault in the copying of the cd, I didn't do any md5 checks or anything. Oh and also, no NTFS, I much prefere 98 to all these new fangled XP's, 2000s, and what not. Ah well, all this said, and the end of the day, the most important thing is that Jesus loves you, died for you, rose again and wants a relationship with you and all you need to do is invite him into your life. God bless![]()
have you tried a lowlevel format? or perhaps first a "zeroing" of the disk (if that is not enough try low level formating).
these actions will WIPE the ENTIRE drive fairly well.Code:dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hd bs=512
any atempt at data recovery after the fact will not be easy, some might say near impossible.
you might recover fragments of files after this, perhaps even whole files, but it will cost you time/money/hairloss/ulser... so be carefull.
What does the bs=512 do? I have formatted with dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda before, but I am not sure what the bs does...Originally Posted by OErjan
it is just sets the blocksize to 512, yes 512b is default, BUT it is only on the READ side, on the write it might truncate the size to fit, so i forced it.
man dd for more.
Gigabyte Z370P D3 ATX Z370 LGA1151 Motherboard (Support Intel 6/7th 8th 9th)
$59.99
ASUS H110M-R Motherboard Intel 6th/7th Gen LGA1151 DDR4 Micro-ATX i/o shield
$42.00
ASRock B550M Pro SE AM4 DDR4 SATA 6Gb/s 1 PCIe 4.0 x16 Micro ATX Motherboard
$84.99
Asus Prime H310M-A R2.0 Intel LGA 1151 DDR4 Desktop Motherboard
$54.99
MSI H110M pro-vd 6th/7th Gen Intel DDR4 MATX Motherboard NO I/O SHIELD
$35.00
ASUS B85M-E Motherboard Intel B85 (4th Gen) LGA1150 DDR3 microATX
$39.99
Asus Prime A320M-K mATX AM4 Motherboard (Ryzen 1000-5000 Ready)
$49.99
Gigabyte M-ATX motherboard with Intel Core i3 8100 CPU and 8GB DDR4 RAM
$84.00
GIGABYTE B650M AORUS ELITE AX AMD Micro-ATX Motherboard LGA 1718 -
$169.95
ASUS PRIME Z690-P WIFI D4 ATX Motherboard Intel LGA1700 DDR4 HDMI
$99.99