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Console Only Session? Hard drive malfunction
My hard drive's file system has become totally mucked up. I had a few partitions on it, 0 is XP, 1 is vista, 2 is Debian, and 3 is the data.
I know that it's this hard drive because when I disconnect it, any liveCD runs ok.
After failing to boot puppy linux (liveCD), xp (bootmgr not found), debian (ended in kernal panic), I tried GPARTED. The xp and vista partitions are listed as existing, but they show a problem flag, gparted says they are corrupt, and they are not listed as having a start, end, or any data. However, the main data partition does list a start, end, size, and data space used.
I need to either format those or get into something that will let me access the data partition.
Gparted either hangs on boot or doesn't recognise the mouse so I can't reformat the bad partitions.
Are there any programs that will ignore the bad partitions and let me access the good ones? Any time I go into a linux distro it either ends up in kernel panic or the mouse doesn't respond.
It's hard to explain. With GPARTED, sometimes it hangs at the third line, sometimes it fails at "mounting hard drives", and sometimes it makes it to the GUI but I can't use the mouse. Debian alternates between these as well.
If I keep trying it looks like I can boot, and it will recognise the partitions, but I can't use the mouse.
I'm kind of familar with bash, is there a way to start up the terminal with no gui?
If I could get a terminal up with a hotkey in the GUI or just start up from a terminal (no gui), I could type mv dev/sda3/ or whatnot.
If I could get into a terminal of gparted I could format the bad parts of the drive to see if that would work.
Otherwise it looks like I'm going to have to zero out the drive with the WD diag tool.
The data isn't life or death, but it would save me some time.
Thanks for replies.
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