Thread: Incomplete GParted resizing could've screwed up my HDD?
today found old pentium 4 ibm computer occupying room room, told myself "why not" , decided run lubuntu live cd. however, wasn't able boot usb drives, had burn cd. ok, fine, although terribly slow (probably because of single ram of 256mb)... , because data contained in hdd old, decided use gparted; after all, files irrelevant me.
thing is, ran @ speed slower of rotation of planet mercury , inevitably crashed (popped message saying operation couldn't complete). after clicked "ok", partitions list "grayed out" , won't show anymore.
in short: did gparted (plus combination of horrible hardware, maybe time , high failure rates) screw hdd? , if answer yes, have solution? old 40gb western digital.
hi there!posted crisopa
today found old pentium 4 ibm computer occupying room room, told myself "why not" , decided run lubuntu live cd. however, wasn't able boot usb drives, had burn cd. ok, fine, although terribly slow (probably because of single ram of 256mb)... , because data contained in hdd old, decided use gparted; after all, files irrelevant me.
thing is, ran @ speed slower of rotation of planet mercury , inevitably crashed (popped message saying operation couldn't complete). after clicked "ok", partitions list "grayed out" , won't show anymore.
in short: did gparted (plus combination of horrible hardware, maybe time , high failure rates) screw hdd? , if answer yes, have solution? old 40gb western digital.
did have data saved?
if yes, absolutely nothing, make sure drive stays unmounted, download photorec , scan disc see can get
if no - setting drive , doesn't matter if on there gone, click on device, create partition table , use default mbr setting - should go white , become editable again.
did build long list of things gparted before clicking apply? i've had errors before doing -learned hard way it's best click apply after each modification want write.
little ram, give hand creating 1gb swap partition, right clicking , choosing 'swapon' - ram wasn't problem, it's precaustion i've taken before when using hardware low ram - reduces risk of halt mid data copying!
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