[Linux-NTFS-Dev] [Fwd: Hard Drive Board]

[Sulaiman T. W. <sul...@th...>]

I also tried FIX MBR and Noton Disk Doctor with no success.

Sulaiman

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From: Sulaiman The WordSmith <sul...@th...>
To: eff...@ao...
Subject: Hard Drive Board
Date: Sat, 01 Jan 2011 17:25:31 -0500

Hi Brett,
Recently I purchased a "HITACHI HTS428040F9AT00 40.01G ATA/IDE AJ300
B/A0A2 A/A" board. Item number 200397766958. I am writing you in regards
to a problem I have.

The problem that I originally had with my HD is the it was exposed to
high voltage (surge) which destroyed the MotherBoard, CPU and HD. After
the surge no computer would recognize the HD during the bios boot up.
After replacing the HD Board with your part 2 tower computers were able
to recognize the HD during Bios boot up while it is connected via an
internal 3.5 to 2.5 HD adpater. But Windows XP will not see the HD Drive
Letter (i.e. C:, D:, etc) and my Linuix Fedora 9 Operating system can
not mount the drive when it is conected via a external USB Hard
Encosure. When I try to mount the HD I get the following error:

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[root@sulaiman ~]# mount -v -t ntfs /dev/sda /media/disk
NTFS signature is missing.
Failed to mount '/dev/sda': Invalid argument
The device '/dev/sda' doesn't seem to have a valid NTFS.
Maybe the wrong device is used? Or the whole disk instead of a
partition (e.g. /dev/sda, not /dev/sda1)? Or the other way around?
[root@sulaiman ~]# 

[root@sulaiman ~]# mount -v -t
ntfs /dev/sdb /home/sulaiman/hitachi_files

Error reading bootsector: Input/output error
Failed to mount '/dev/sdb': Input/output error
NTFS is either inconsistent, or there is a hardware fault, or it's a
SoftRAID/FakeRAID hardware. In the first case run chkdsk /f on Windows
then reboot into Windows twice. The usage of the /f parameter is very
important! If the device is a SoftRAID/FakeRAID then first activate
it and mount a different device under the /dev/mapper/ directory, (e.g.
/dev/mapper/nvidia_eahaabcc1). Please see the 'dmraid' documentation
for more details.
[root@sulaiman ~]# 

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Based on this information I believe that the Master Boot Record or
Primary Partiton is corrupt. I do not deal with issues like this every
day. So I would like to know what is the correct procudure to use.