partitions

[Mark Robson]

Aha, right.  Found the disk, ran the full diagnostics
- 2:52:34 elapsed.  No physical errors.  So is there
something about running two FAT mountpoints that might
cause a system-freeze?   I can't see why would Linux
be affected by the bad win-drivers?  Is the partition
numbering sequence relevant (definitely an enduser
question, sorry)  Seems to be not reproducible.  

If no obvious suggestions, no worries.  I'm just
trying to get enough data off the FAT partitions to
format away the XP anyways, so if I'm okay to get that
done, and then the issue is moot.

Is there a good newbie link on backing up to CDRW? 
I've saved the recent thread here on it, but I'm not
ADMIN enough to really get it yet.  

Thanks all again for the help.  

Mark


--- JB <mesimpleton at yahoo.com> wrote:
> My Western Digital HD came with a floppy disk that
> has
> diagnostics on it. You can also download from the WD
> website if this helps.
> http://support.wdc.com/download/
> 
> > Well, got  fdisk -l dev/hda to report that in fact
> I
> > have hda1 and hda5 patitions,  no hda2 to mount.  
> > 
> > Now, when I have both FAT partitions mounted,
> system
> > locks up catastrophically.  No mouse, kbd,
> nothing. 
> > Only responds to hard reset.  Doesn't happen with
> > just
> > one or the other singly, only when I mount both. 
> > Well, it did that twice, but now I've got both
> > mounted, and it isn't locking up yet.  Makes me
> > wonder
> > if the drive itself is failing, thus the corrupted
> > drivers?  Is there a way to tell if this is so
> short
> > of waiting for it to die?  Less than 1yr old WD
> > 80gb,
> > should be under warranty yet.  
> > 


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