In message , HB writes:

"Paul" wrote in message
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Java Jive wrote:

The command

disktype /dev/sda


I typed this in the CP (command prompt) and
. It sees there are 2

That is rather reassuring: it suggests that the drive electronics are
working, and can read the drive surface, at least as far as the
partition table, which is (as its name suggests) a table near the
beginning of the disc which lays out what partitions the rest of the
disc is divided into. If it couldn't read the disc surface, it wouldn't
be able to report that.

partitions. Data read failed at position (list of numbers) Input/output
error. Error petition 3.

As far as I know there is no partition 3.


As I said in the previous post, if, when it was working, you could see a
C: and a D: partition, then if there was also a hidden partition (which
there often is), there would indeed be three partitions.

Unfortunately, I don't _think_ we can assume that partition 3 is D:;
different things see the partitions in a different order. Would you mind
posting us a screenshot of where "it mentions a partition 1 and a
partition 2 NTFS system followed by bytes and numbers" (or copying it
out for us)? I know it's tedious, but that information would be very
useful.

(Oh, if you do do it with the camera, turn off [or put your finger over
if you can't turn off] the flash; it reflects off the screen in the shot
you have posted, and since the screen is backlit anyway it isn't needed
- will probably give a better picture anyway.)

A shot of the results of the
smartctl -a /dev/sda
result might also be useful - I know you're getting fed up of that one,
but _we_ have so far only seen the results of your first two attempts,
one of which had the capital S and the other the extra "return".
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