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I've got a problem with my desktop box again and look like it's happen periodically [every 5 months I think]. In the box, I have two hard drives. The new one, sata, is installed as dual boot disk, feisty and xp and another is 5 years old ide. I use it to store some unimportance files. Yesterday I start up ubuntu and can't mount the old one. It made some noise at boot time but this is nothing weird, It's sound terrible like this every day. The difference is this time it can't mount. Until now I still not sure my old ide is bad. Almost parts in the box are almost 5 years old, it can die at anytime. Maybe it's power supply, I don't know, it run at least 5 hours a day everyday for almost five years. Anyway my main SATA still healthy. I found this thread on ubuntuforums, he said ubuntu kill his laptop drive. This is because upon power off, the kernel sends the FLUSH CACHE message to the disk to flush the disk write cache, which cause it to spin up. Then it sudde...

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== this post is specific for my case[Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe with Seagate SATA2] == What's happens before? After try many options in bios, grub. I found the way to install winxp on SATA2 and A7N8X-E. To enable booting winxp from bios, I need to flash neoplus mod bios, link below. Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe 1013 BIOS with added v4.2.83 Sil3112 (SATA) BIOS by NeoPolus (based on Trats BIOS) This bios come with new SATA bios(v4.2.83) make xp installation go smooth but afterthat I can't restore grub . Very strange, even I try to reinstall ubuntu. Live cd's not recognize prepartition on the drive. Actually I have sda1 is winxp(just install it),sda5 is ext3(/),sda6 is swap and sda7 is data(ntfs).All partition can be seen in winxp but for live cd the drive appear as a 80GB drive no partition on it. UPDATE[10/05/2007]: Last night I use Computer management in xp to see partition table on SATA drive and found that there is something wrong i.e. look like it has 25GB excess free space go between ...

Last week, I’ve got serious problem with my system at home. It has 2 drives, ide and sata. The ide one(4 years old), used as system drive,'s partition table was crash. The last environments before it crashed are Ide drive's 4 partitions. hda1 is winxp(ntfs,loss partition table),hda5 is data(ntfs,loss partition table),hda6 is ubuntu /(fine) and hda7 is swap(fine). Sata drive's 3 ntfs partitions (sda1,5,6) all fine and its store movies and programs I've downloaded from bittorrent. Motherboard is ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe with Sillicon SATA chip(Sillicon 3112a I guess) Ubuntu on hda6 still can boot. I have some data on hda5 need to restore(with 'EasyRecovery', it works great, restores everything as the same folder structure.). My plan is reinstall both XP and ubuntu on SATA drive, use last partition on SATA to store importance data. For old 60 GB IDE, I will use as download drive store data downloaded from bittorrent network. I have followed other instructions found o...