Re: Why dosemu can not access internal harddisks while running from latest GRML in live CD mode?

[Ivan Baldo <ibaldo@adinet.com.uy>]

     Janusz, you can put any hard disk you want in your laptop, it 
doesn't have to be from Toshiba, generally they are of 2.5 inches with a 
SATA connector.
     Here in Uruguay a 500 GB 2.5 inches laptop harddisk costs 87 USD, I 
guess they are cheaper in other parts of the world.
     You need to buy it, then find a way to transfer the information to 
the new harddisk and thats it.
     Don't count on any program to be able to fix a harddisk, when they 
fail there is usually not a way to repair them.
     And you can't trust your harddisk if it is accumulating relocated 
sectors, it could fail anytime.
     Good bye!



El 17/10/11 09:37, Mgr. Janusz Chmiel escribió:
> Dear syr,
> Thank You very much for Yours help.
> Yes, You had right. GRML is including precompiled Speakup in kernel 
> and Speakup is able to use Espeak synthesizer and because Dosemu is 
> professionally preconfigured, i can run Dosemu from one of The virtual 
> consoles and i can read The dos programs messages by using Speakup 
> screen reader.
> Program HDD Regenerator 2011 is using .exe program for DOS for 
> searching bad harddrive sectors and according to The programmer, it 
> can repair physically damaged sectors.
> I have Toshiba satellite notebook and my second harddrive is having 
> some bad sectors according to The smart test included in many programs 
> including Diskutility included with Ubuntu.
> My first harddrive started to have even 11 bad sectors and it started 
> to be more and more slover and it finished by The situation, that 
> harddisk heads were worked constantly and harddrive have been cycled 
> in The self test mode so even Linux kernel were not able to find this 
> device.
> I would like to know, if it is possibility to repair hydden sectors, 
> which are being hydden by The smart function. Because i think, that 
> every harddrive is having some place to store bad sectors on it, and 
> when this place started to be full, it start to unhyde those bad 
> sectors and even Windows or other operating system kernel is able to 
> find those sectors unusable.
> I Am very gently to my computers and i AM very sad, that second 
> harddisk is containing those bad sectors.
> Firstly, there were 5 bad sectors and 6 or 8 weeks later there was 7 
> bad sectors.
> If will be more than 10 bad sectors, it will start to blocking Windows 
> kernel and i will get errors that system can't read or write from The 
> specific sectors.
> When i have tried HDD Regenerator 2011 with my mother, program did not 
> find bad sectors but i think, that program is also depend on BIOS 
> services for accessing sectors and that bad sectors will be only 
> awailable for HDD Regenerator 2011 to repair it when harddisk will 
> contain more than 10  bad sectors.
> So by The others words, i AM searching for program to repair Toshiba 
> manufactured harddisk.
> Do You think, that it is possible to connect other than Toshiba 
> harddisk to My notebook? Or BIOS or other build in software modules 
> will only cooperate with their harddisks?
> If i will have to be forced to change thirt harddisk, it is very 
> unpleasant think.
> I Am afraid, that i will be forced to use Linux in live Mode and 
> external harddrive for data storage, but because in live Mode system 
> is using RAM for storing .tmp files, it is not very practic approach.
> And i Am having big issue, i can not find The kernel device driver for 
> The Atheros AR8152/8158 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller (NDIS 6.20) 
> device.
> May be, that this kernel device driver not exist.
> I can make my Ubuntu or debian remaster, it is not issue for Me, i 
> know about Remastersys or Tux2live, so there are possibility.
> I have also PCLINUX OS ZEN Mini from Year 2009 and this distro is 
> containing ammazing remastering script, user is even able to remaster 
> from running live CD by specifiing The target partition. It is sad, 
> that this is not possible when using Debian based kernels.
>
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