[ILUG] Dead disc?

[Paulo Jacob]

It looks like you mbr is corrupted. See it this helps: http://j.mp/restore_mbr

P.

On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 4:39 PM, Brendan Halpin <brendan.halpin at ul.ie> wrote:
> Back from a repair to the screen, my laptop won't reboot. It just sits
> with "GRUB" at the top of a black screen.
>
> Booting off a handy Ubuntu CD, I can see sda in the list of devices, but
> can't mount any of its partitions. fdisk shows me four partitions, but
> all my Linux stuff is hidden inside sda4, which is marked as W95
> Extended.
>
> If I remember correctly, when I last re-installed, gparted screwed up
> the bootability of the windows and Dell Utility partitions. Since I
> hadn't booted into windows in probably two years, this was supremely
> unimportant.
>
> Somehow the full partitioning info has been lost. I don't have an exact
> record, but I typically separate at least /usr, /home, /var, /tmp and
> boot.
>
> Does this sound recoverable? Or should I be pricing a replacement disc?
>
> Brendan
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