I had a drive die on my too, thankfully I didn't have all the problems you did. Sorry lass. And data retrieval was a snap.
Be happy, you're running linux and not windows, data retrieval would be a nightmare. Assuming it was possible.
I wish I could help, I have some spare healthy HDs I could have lent you.
If you're in the US, take advantage of the memorial day sales coming up.
Also, don't buy any HD with a less than 5 year warranty. They are more likely to fail within the first 90 days of operation (cheaper - none mission critical, consumer level construction).
Seagates, Western Digitals and Maxtor (Seagate) are my favs.
I hope all goes well.
Kate
On Saturday 08 October 2011, Lisi wrote:
On Thursday 06 October 2011 22:23:11 Lisi wrote:
Bonkers is the best description I can come up with. Applications that were working fine are suddenly not. (In particular Konqueror, but not only Konqeror.) Settings change randomly. The latest, a few minutes ago, was my desktop settings, which have disappeared and the same random KDE one "set up" for all the desktops (4 - and until just now they all had different backgrounds). When I went to check what "configure desktop" showed, I found that my screensaver had been turned off.
I ran memtest overnight from Thursday to Friday. No errors. It was only 6 passes, so is not definitive, but it is a good indication that the memory is OK.
I have looked at the log as suggested by Nik. I can see nothing, but then I don't know what I am looking for.
And last night I ran (from a Live CD, so outside the system): first smartctl, which found some errors, and then badblocks, which didn't.
So I imagine that I should start looking for a new hard drive? :-( I do worry a bit in case it is something more major. And I may change the CMOS battery first.
smartctl is obviously warning me: the drive is on its way out, so do something about it. I shall try to limp to next Tuesday, since it will mean a lot of sorting out. (Acquire the HDD, install Squeeze/Trinity, try to use my present /home and all the data on it etc.)
That would also, of course, sort out the software. Provided that I don't go and restore some faulty configurations. I shall anyhow try the viable part of Kate's suggestion. Kate - I realised that the fault is too intermittent to show up in a hurry. We are talking days, not hours. And I, as me, need to access my data etc.
I am still open to suggestions!!
Thanks all for your invaluable help.
Lisi
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