Re: Help please

["Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall@rfk.com>]

At 10:24 AM 8/20/2001, Jordan Halsey wrote:
>I have been running the cygwin tools on Nt for the last year or so and
>recently had a major problem and before I re-install the tools I have a few
>major worries. 
>
>What seemed to happen is that after a hard crash I got a blinking cursor and
>my system refused to recognize my system drive even though the symbios drive
>utility could see the drive and verify that all sectors were undamaged but
>still unrecognizable as a drive that could be used by my system.  This
>immediately made me think of the cygwin tools and how they set mount points.
>Due to time constraints I took the machine to my VAR, had a new drive put in
>and re-installed NT.  I should also say that the VAR that I use is very pro
>and they could do nothing for the data on my drive or explain what happened
>just that the drive was inaccessible and that they would have to re-format
>the drive. I told them to just leave it alone. The drive is a a 9 gig
>barracuda in two 4.5 gig partitions.  Now that I have a new drive as a c:
>drive this drive has become my f and g drives f is what was previously used
>as my system drive so I reformatted that drive with no problems but left the
>g drive untouched with the hopes that there might be a way to recognize the
>drive again and retrieve any un-backed up info.  Any advice on how to do
>this would be greatly appreciated even if its , no way and I have to
>reformat and loose all info.
>
>My other question is, what could possibly have happened that would cause my
>drive to be in a stable (no bad blocks or sectors etc) place and yet be
>unrecognizable?  Do I run risks such as this in using the cygwin tools on
>NT? ( I love these tools and do not want to give them up) Is there something
>that I could have done to prevent this?


Cygwin mount points nor any other Cygwin facility is related to this 
issue.  Whatever the problem is, its related to the drive in question
and not the software on it.



Larry Hall                              lhall@rfk.com
RFK Partners, Inc.                      http://www.rfk.com
118 Washington Street                   (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
Holliston, MA 01746                     (508) 893-9889 - FAX


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