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Friday, April 24, 2015

Re: [LINUX_Newbies] SAT A Primary hard disk drive 0 failure

I am sorry. I did not understand You. The computer was in the repair
station and hd was destroyed and now all is fine. Thank You Regards Sophie

Am 20.04.2015 um 15:32 schrieb Joan Leach jleach728@sbcglobal.net
[LINUX_Newbies]:
> Well, if the BIOS allows you to see and mount the hard drive, and read
> files in your Home directory you can copy files off to USB, if you need
> to. I think the smartmontools might be built into the DiskTool that
> Zorin has from its Ubuntu Gnome legacy, although I think the gear I see
> in some partitioning tools might give the same Smart info regarding bad
> sectors, etc. Then, I just try installing another Linux Distro to it. I
> use Firefox Add-On tools like Xmarks to store my bookmarks online, but
> there's probably other ways to save that History, too.
>
> Joan in Reno
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> *From:* "'highskywhy@yahoo.de' highskywhy@yahoo.de [LINUX_Newbies]"
> <LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com>
> *To:* LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com
> *Sent:* Monday, April 20, 2015 1:51 AM
> *Subject:* Re: [LINUX_Newbies] SAT A Primary hard disk drive 0 failure
>
> thank you
> i succeeded in booting a puppy live cd
> but i did not succeed to use or install smartmontools to check the hard
> drive sata0
>
> what shall i do?
> thank you
>
> regards
> sophie
>
> Am 19.04.2015 um 16:08 schrieb Joan Leach jleach728@sbcglobal.net
> [LINUX_Newbies]:
> > I've used Puppy Linux, PcLinuxOS or Zorin Linux to read or install on
> > suspect hard drives. It also depends on the BIOS, etc. of computer
> > hardware make-up of each computer. I've taken both DVD or hard drives
> > from one that had trouble to another and had years of service from it.
> > Of course, I haven't had as much testing with the newer SATA devices
> > than IDE/PATA devices.
> >
> > Joan in Reno