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how do you tell if a hd is shot?




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Hi all
I have a issue with a older quantum fireball 40 gig 5400 rpm HD
Ive been using it on a linux box and have used it to test LOTS of distros now i get this error?

"[ 199.220000] buffer I/O error on device FD0, Logical block 0"

no matter where i set the jumpers i get the same error ?? has my old faithful finally died?

thanx all

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If theres nothing important on it, try a reformat if you havent already. May just be a bad sector which a format should detect and block it from being used.
If it wont format then yea I'd say its shot.

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thanx i tried to run gparted on it and it didnt help.,,
oh well i got my 10 or so years of use from it....


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