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

Monday, April 20, 2015

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

On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 01:32:18PM +0000, Joan Leach jleach728@sbcglobal.net [LINUX_Newbies] wrote:
> 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 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 did you do to try to use them?

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