We just had a power spike with the snow we got, and when I checked. Neither of my machines had rebooted. When I rebooted my BSD box, I found that one of my drives would not mount. When I had rebooted, I did notice a clicking sound. After checking out the fstab, I found that the drive that wouldn’t mount was my extra internal 160.
I pulled the drive, and put it in an external case I have and tried it again. This time I was also able to tell that the drive was having serious issues trying to spin up to speed. Included in this effort was a whine along with the clicks. Tried the external on both the windows box and the BSD box. Checked my messages in BSD, and it was all kinds of errors. Windows just said that unrecognized device. What I didn’t do, and should have was check the boot process of the BSD machine when the drive was still installed as an internal to see if it was seen there. Because, when I checked in the fdisk area of sysinstall. It wasn’t seen.
Sooooo, in that all my ebooks and downloaded executable was on this drive. I really would like to get the data off. The other 2 partitions were a backup partition and CVS.
Is it now a door stop? Or, should I just use it for road rage?
Dan